The End of Empire (eBook, PDF)
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| Partner: | buecher.de |
| Hersteller: | Pen and Sword (Bell, Martin) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Martin Bell, the former BBC was reporter and Independent MP, served as a soldier in the Suffolk Regiment during the Cyprus emergency between 1957 and 1959. In a chocolate box in the attic many years later he found more than 100 letters that he had sent home to his family. He was not a journalist then, but the letters give a vivid impression of what it was like to be a conscript on active service during the EOKA rebellion against British rule. They describe road blocks and cordons and searches, murders and explosions and riots – and a strategy of armed repression that ultimately failed. From this beginning he has written The End of Empire. His narrative is a powerful and personal account of the violent process of decolonization, of the character of the British Army at the time and the impact of National Service on young men who were not much more than ‘kids in uniform’. It also gives a graphic insight into the ultimate futility of the use of force in wars among...
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