The Cyprus Conspiracy: America, Espionage and the Turkish Invasion

click here for more details, find new or used items	Brendan O'Malley, Ian Craig Our price £9.09 (£12.99) New from £7.40 Used from £5.47 Pages: 288 (Paperback) ISBN: 1860647375 Pub: I B Tauris & Co Ltd Pub date: 2001-06-25 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 24297

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A riveting book (0/0 people found this helpful)

I worked in Cyprus for 6 years through the invasion for the British Government. The book tells what a lot of us thought who were there at the time. It is well researched and maybe the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot after reading it will understand where the problem to the invasion laid.

Cyprus conspiracy (4/8 people found this helpful)

This book is well researched and while told from an American perspective is reasonably impartial. It demonstrates how a nation was divided to support the interests of the colonial and neo-colonial powers, namely Britain and America, as well as expansionist Turkey. It also shows how tension between tiny nationalist elements on both sides was used as a pretext for the first example of ethinc cleansing in Europe since the holocaust. Small countries beware if you believe the conclusions of this book. If the aggresor has America on its side invasion, rape, pillage and mass murder will be judiciously ignored.

Super Power Politics and Little Cyprus (7/9 people found this helpful)

Superbly researched and unbiased account of the Island of Cyprus and the surrounding region during the second half of the twentieth Century! It gives the reader a true insight into the the intrigues of Super Power politics and how their prevailing politico-economic interest can effect the lives of the people of a small nation.
It clearly demonstrates that if a small nation has a strategic and/or economic value disproportionate to its size it can never achieve true self determination and always remains suportinate to the wishes and interests of the Powerful.

Gripping account of global power politics (25/30 people found this helpful)

I remember the Turkish paratroops invading and know a bit about Cyprus, and visitied. If you're like me, you'll find this book a gripping read. The events leading up to the 1974 invasion are told with absolute clarity and brevity.The revelations are fascinating and plausible. Perhaps the book leans towards the Turkish position but it accounts for all sides of the story.It does not over-speculate but keeps to the facts, many relating to the invasion are newly uncovered. Still very relevant and a fascinating insight into global politices

An excellent in depth and objective research. (13/15 people found this helpful)

Cyprus, a beautiful small island has always been the victim of its strategic geographical location on the international political scene, while this works to its advantage on the economic side. If ever the two factors ever find their equilibrium the people of the island irrespective of national, cultural, religious and other differences will prosper.
The detailed analysis of events and plots are ecellent. At the end of the day one realizes that it is the prevailing peripheral circumstances and interests that really dictate the fortunes of the core.
It is a great piece of work. I thought I knew a few things about the Cyprus problem until a read this book.

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