Fighting EOKA : The British Counter-Insurgency Campaign on Cyprus, 1955-1959.

French, David.
Fighting EOKA :
DK/0116
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9780191045592 (electronic bk.)
9780198729341
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DK/0116
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French, David.
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©2015.
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 online resource (347 pages)
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Cover -- Fighting EOKA: The British Counter-Insurgency Campaign on Cyprus, 1955-1959 -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- A note on methodology and on the conventions used in the text and footnotes -- Chapter: 1 The British Colonial Administration and Enosis, 1878-1950 -- Geography and demography -- The colonial state on Cyprus -- The growth of the Enosis movement -- The failure of British efforts to put Cyprus on the road to self-government -- Keeping Cyprus out of the news -- Conclusion -- Chapter: 2 Makarios, Grivas, and EOKA -- Archbishop Makarios III and the Enosis movement -- The Liberation Committee, George Grivas, and the origins of EOKA -- EOKA´s organization -- EOKA´s logistics -- Recruits and their motives -- Conclusion -- Chapter: 3 `A game of cops and robbers´: The Start of the Insurgency, April 1955-March 1956 -- British reactions from the capture of the St George to Armitage´s dismissal -- EOKA and Operation `Forward to Victory´ (phase one) -- Sir John Harding´s strategy -- Conclusion -- Chapter: 4 EOKA Versus the Security Forces -- Operation `Forward to Victory´ (phase two) -- Harding´s response -- Security sector reform -- Security force operations, March 1956 to November 1956 -- The security forces and the containment of EOKA -- The EOKA truce -- Conclusion -- Chapter: 5 Losing Hearts and Minds -- EOKA´s campaign against `traitors´ -- Information policy -- Curbing Enosis: the press, education, and the church -- The development programme -- The Radcliffe plan -- Conclusion -- Chapter: 6 `The Nazi Methods of Hitler´: EOKA's Counter-narrative -- EOKA´s `counter narrative´ -- The British response -- The effectiveness of EOKA´s `smear´ campaign -- A dirty war? -- Lethal violence -- Torture and interrogation -- Conclusion.
Chapter: 7 The Governorship of Sir Hugh Foot and the Descent into Intercommunal violence, December 1957-August 1958 -- Macmillan´ strategy -- Sir Hugh Foot -- The regeneration of EOKA -- The Turkish Cypriot revolt -- The road to intercommunal violence -- Operations `Matchbox´ and `Table Lighter´ -- Conclusion -- Chapter: 8 Stalemate: The Macmillan Plan and the Zurich and London Agreements -- The British decision to impose the Macmillan plan -- EOKA´s final offensive -- Major-General Darling´s counter-offensive. -- Greece, Turkey, and the Zurich Agreement -- The British and the Zurich and London Agreements -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Unpublished Primary Sources -- National Archives, Public Record Office, Kew -- Churchill College Cambridge -- Imperial War Museum, Department of Documents, Lambeth, London -- Imperial War Museum, Sound Archives, Lambeth, London -- National Army Museum, Chelsea, London -- Rhodes House, Oxford -- Royal Horse Guards Archive, Windsor -- Royal Norfolk Regiment Museum, Norwich -- Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Museum (Royal Warwickshire), Warwick -- Staffordshire Regiment Museum, Lichfield -- Websites -- Published Primary Sources -- Newspapers, regimental journals, and works of reference -- Published Secondary Sources -- Index.
Özet, vb.
The first full account of the operations of the British security forces on Cyprus in the second half of the 1950s, showing how these forces were trying to defeat the Greek Cypriot paramilitary organisation, EOKA, which was fighting to bring about union between Cyprus and Greece.
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Cyprus.
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