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The Cyprus Conspiracy: America, Espionage and the Turkish Invasion | 
 enlarge | Authors: Brendan O'malley, Ian Craig
Publisher: I B Tauris & Co Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: £12.99
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 57826
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 288
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 5.7 x 0.9
ISBN: 1860647375
Dewey Decimal Number: 327
EAN: 9781860647376
ASIN: 1860647375
Publication Date: June 25, 2001
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 Gripping account of global power politics May 18, 2002
stuart.clark10@ntlworld.com (London)
25 out of 30 found this review 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. May 14, 2002
12 out of 14 found this review 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.
Super Power Politics and Little Cyprus January 9, 2006
7 out of 9 found this review 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.
Brilliant! An excellent book about the Cyprus problem. October 28, 1999
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
I purchased this book a couple of weeks ago and have just finished reading it. I have to say that, as a person of Greek-Cypriot origin myself and a keen reader of contemporary Cyprus history, I found this book to be extremely well-written, well-researched and absolutely essential reading for anybody who wishes to gain an understanding of the reasons for the current situation in Cyprus - a British Commonwealth country of which nearly 40% of its' territory has been illegally occupied by Turkey since 1974. The authors have offered a frank explanation of events leading up to the tragic events of 1974 and cite quite clearly that the primary reasons for the partition of the island lay not so much with the Greek and Cypriot communities (although it has to be said that extremists and fanatics on both sides have to be apportioned some of the blame) but has more to do with international power politics, United States Foreign Policy, the Cold War, Western defence interests and an insurance policy for NATO should Britain ever decide to pull out of its' military bases, which the U.S. Government feared Britain would do thus leaving a vacuum for Soviet expansion into NATO's southern flank. Rather than trying to give an in-depth overview of Cypriot history the book focuses on the years since the end of the Second World War, the ENOSIS (Union With Greece) campaign of the Greek Cypriots in the 1950s, the flawed attempts by U.S. and British politicians to divide the island up between Greece and Turkey, and the eventual granting of "independence" in 1960 - which was not really designed to give Cypriots independence at all. Through the years of constitutional breakdown when President Makarios sought backing for Cyprus to be a truly independent and non-aligned nation (raising U.S. concern that he was going to turn into some sort of "cassocked Castro") and to the tragic events of 1974, this book aims to shed new light on the events and does so indeed - including a startling revelation that, in contrast to the official line at the time, Britain WAS actually preparing for a full-on war with Turkey. We are informed that Britain was ready for confrontation but had to climb down after the U.S. Government (in particular, Henry Kissinger) refused to back them. Whatever your interest in Cyprus, and whatever your point of view, this book is compulsive reading and will hopefully once and for all dispel the myth that the Cyprus problem is purely a problem of inter-ethnic hatred. The book also highlights clearly that the Cyprus problem was created by external forces, keen to preserve their own interests, and that at no time was consideration ever given by the likes of the U.S. and British Governments to the aspirations or wishes of the Cypriot people. Go buy it.
A MUST October 8, 1999
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Mandatory reading for anyone interested about the Cyprus problem. Provides crucial new evidence based on unclassified FCO and DoS documents that questions the myth that Cyprus is divided soley because of ethnic hatred...
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