In what way do the following connect with each other: Massachusetts Patriots, the Spirit of the Marathon, Mayor Sozos, Archbishop Makarios II, Greek liberation wars, British Empire, Ottoman Turkish Empire, Crimean War, Jewish homeland, self determination and love of freedom? The Cyprus-born, United States educated author puts all that together in his journey through Cyprus history to the end of the first half of the twentieth century. In the process of the journey, he discovers more about his ancestry. What happened to this Mediterranean island in the second half of the 20th century was already set up by then, as shown in this book.