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.

“Hitchens’s book deserves wholehearted praise. . . Thorough, invigorating and compelling.” — Times Literary Supplement

“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.” — Christian Science Monitor

Christopher Hitchens lives in Washington, D.C. and writes for Slate and the Daily Mirror and is contributing editor to The Atlantic Monthly and Vanity Fair.

224 pages

Paper
ISBN-13: 978 1 85984 189 1
£13 / US$l9 / CAN$24

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The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice

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No One Left to Lie To:
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