Drawing upon a wide range of unpublished sources, including files
from the recently-released Foreign and Commonwealth Office
'migrated archive', Fighting EOKA is the first full account of the
operations of the British security forces on Cyprus in the second
half of the 1950s. It shows how between 1955 and 1959 these forces
tried to defeat the Greek Cypriot paramilitary organisation, EOKA,
which was fighting to bring about enosis, that is the union between
Cyprus and Greece. By tracing the evolving pattern of EOKA violence
and the responses of the police, the British army, the civil
administration on the island, and the minority Turkish Cypriot
community, David French explains why the British could contain the
military threat posed by EOKA, but could not eliminate it. The
result was that by the spring of 1959 a political stalemate had
descended upon Cyprus, and none of the contending parties had
achieved their full objectives. Greek Cypriots had to be content
with independence rather than enosis. Turkish Cypriots, who had
hoped to see the island partitioned on ethnic lines, were given
only a share of power in the government of the new Republic, and
the British, who had hoped to retain sovereignty over the whole of
the island, were left in control of just two military enclaves.
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