Hostage to History: Cyprus from the Ottomans to Kissinger

Christian Science Monitor
In his exhaustive, well-documented and even-handed book, Hitchens attempts, with remarkable success, to restore the recent history of Cyprus to its proper perspective.


Times Literary Supplement
Hitchens's book deserves wholehearted praise. . . Thorough, invigorating and compelling.


Book Description
An updated survey of the partition of Cyprus. In a compelling study of great-power misconduct, Christopher Hitchens examines the events leading up to the partition of Cyprus and its legacy. He argues that the intervention of four major foreign powers, Turkey, Greece, Britain and the United States, turned a local dispute into a major disaster. In a new afterword, Hitchens reviews the implications of the Republic of Cyprus's applications for European union membership, the escalating regional arms race between Greece and Turkey, and last year's Greek Cypriot protests along the partition border.


About the Author
Christopher Hitchens is a columnist for Vanity Fair and The Nation. His other books are For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports, The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice, The Elgin Marbles: Should They Be Returned to Greece?, and No One Left to Lie To: The Triangulations of William Jeffeson Clinton, all from Verso.


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An updated survey of the partition of Cyprus. In a compelling study of great-powermisconduct, Christopher Hitchens examines the events leading up to the partition of Cyprus and its legacy. He argues that the intervention of four major foreign powers, Turkey, Greece, Britain and the United States, turned a local dispute into a major disaster. In a new afterword, Hitchens reviews the implications of the Republic of Cyprus's applications for European union membership, the escalating regional arms race between Greece and Turkey, and last year's Greek Cypriot protests along the partition border.



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