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Paperback The Cyprus Emergency: The Divided Island 1955-1974 Book

ISBN: 1783462167

ISBN13: 9781783462162

The Cyprus Emergency: The Divided Island 1955-1974

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The UK has been involved in Cyprus for over 125 years. Strategically placed in the Eastern Mediterranean, it was initially ideal for protection of the Suez Canal and more recently as a 'listening post' for the troubled Middle East and southern flank of NATO.

The British faced two serious problems - the first, the Greek Cypriots' desire for Enosis, (union with Greece) and, second, the intense rivalry and antipathy between the Greek and Turkish...

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