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The End of Empire - Cyprus: A Soldier's Story (Hardcover)
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The End of Empire - Cyprus: A Soldier's Story (Hardcover)
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Martin Bell, the former BBC war reporter and Independent MP, served
as a soldier in the British army in Cyprus in the late 1950s during
the EOKA rebellion against British rule, and recently he discovered
the letters he had written home during the conflict. They describe
road blocks and cordons and searches, murders and explosions and
riots - and a strategy of armed repression that failed. Now, almost
sixty years later, he has used these letters to write The End of
Empire. His narrative is a powerful personal account of the violent
process of decolonization, of the character of the British army at
the time and the impact of National Service on young men who were
not much more than 'kids in uniform'. He also gives a graphic
insight into the futility of the use of force in wars among the
people and reveals, for the first time, the true story of the
insurgency and the campaign to defeat it, for recently declassified
documents show that the army commanders adopted misguided tactics
that served only to strengthen support for their enemy.
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