Fighting EOKA : the British counter-insurgency campaign on Cyprus, 1955-1959 / David French.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

French, David, 1954- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

E.O.K.A. (Cyprus).

International relations.

History.

Terrorism.

Counterinsurgency.

Cyprus--History--War for Union with Greece, 1955-1959.

Cyprus.

Counterinsurgency--History--20th century.

World politics--1945-1989.

World politics.

Terrorism--Cyprus.

E.O.K.A. (Cyprus)--History.

Cyprus--History--British rule, 1878-1960.

Great Britain--Foreign relations--Cyprus.

Great Britain.

Cyprus--Foreign relations--Great Britain.

Physical Description:

x, 334 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Summary:

Drawing upon a wide range of unpublished sources, including files from the recently-released Foreign and Commonwealth Office 'migrated archive', Fighting EOKA is the first full account of the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 in 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 apolitical 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 control1 of just two military enclaves. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The British Colonial Administration and Enosis, 1878-1950 12

2 Makarios, Grivas, and EOKA 39

3 'A game of cops and robbers': The Start of the Insurgency, April 1955-March 1956 71

4 EOKA Versus the Security Forces: March 1956-March 1957 106

5 Losing Hearts and Minds 158

6 'The Nazi Methods of Hitler': EOKA's Counter-narrative 194

7 The Governorship of Sir Hugh Foot and the Descent into Intercommunal violence, December 1957-August 1958 237

8 Stalemate: The Macmillan Plan and the Zurich and London Agreements 270.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-321) and index.

Other Format:

Also availble online: French, David. Fighting EOKA.

ISBN:

9780198729341

0198729340

OCLC:

909190469