The end of empire: the Cyprus emergency ; a soldier's story
Martin Bell, the former BBC was reporter and Independent MP, served as a soldier in the Suffolk Regiment during the Cyprus emergency between 1957 and 1959. In a chocolate box in the attic many years later he found more than 100 letters that he had sent home to his family. He was not a journalist the...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Martin Bell, the former BBC was reporter and Independent MP, served as a soldier in the Suffolk Regiment during the Cyprus emergency between 1957 and 1959. In a chocolate box in the attic many years later he found more than 100 letters that he had sent home to his family. He was not a journalist then, but the letters give a vivid impression of what it was like to be a conscript on active service during the EOKA rebellion against British rule. They describe road blocks and cordons and searches, murders and explosions and riots - and a strategy of armed repression that ultimately failed. From th |
| Beschreibung: | Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgements; The Suffolk Regiment 1957-1959; Chapter 1: Destination Cyprus; Chapter 2: Gibraltar Barracks; Chapter 3: On Active Service; Chapter 4: Intelligence Section; Chapter 5: Riot Duty; Chapter 6: The Colonists; Chapter 7: Commanding Officer; Chapter 8: Unintelligent Operations; Chapter 9: The Thick of Things; Chapter 10: Operation Matchbox; Chapter 11: Armed Repression; Chapter 12: Routines; Chapter 13: Promotion; Chapter 14: From Sports to Char Wallahs; Chapter 15: Excursions Chapter 16: Media MattersChapter 17: Hearts and Minds; Chapter 18: Reluctant Soldiers; Chapter 19: End Game; Chapter 20: The Other Side of the Wire; Chapter 21: Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Campbell MC; Chapter 22: Buried Treasure; Chapter 23: Flaming Cassock; Chapter 24: The Harding Memorandum; Chapter 25: Retrospective; Postscript; Note on Sources; Index |
| Beschreibung: | IX, 209, [8] S. Ill., Kt. |
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List of Illustrations vii
Preface and Acknowledgements viii
The Suffolk Regiment 1957—1959 X
Chapter 1 Destination Cyprus 1
Chapter 2 Gibraltar Barracks 7
Chapter 3 On Active Service 13
Chapter 4 Intelligence Section 23
Chapter 5 Riot Duty 29
Chapter 6 The Colonists 37
Chapter 7 Commanding Officer 45
Chapter 8 Unintelligent Operations 50
Chapter 9 The Thick of Things 62
Chapter 10 Operation Matchbox 70
Chapter 11 Armed Repression 76
Chapter 12 Routines 87
Chapter 13 Promotion 94
Chapter 14 From Sports to Char Wallahs 101
Chapter 15 Excursions 107
Chapter 16 Media Matters 121
Hearts and Minds
131
Chapter 17
Chapter 18 Reluctant Soldiers 141
Chapter 19 End Game 147
Chapter 20 The Other Side of the Wire 159
Chapter 21 Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Campbell MC 166
Chapter 22 Buried Treasure 171
Chapter 23 Flaming Cassock
Chapter 24 The Harding Memorandum 184
Chapter 25 Retrospective 192
Postscript 204
Note on Sources 205
Index 207
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