The Cyprus Conspiracy

ISBN: 9781860647376 出版年：2001 页码：285 Brendan O'Malley Bloomsbury Publishing

Strategic prize - Britain's vital military base the enemy within - the rise of the Enosis campaign the secret alliance -Eden stokes Turkish violence military crackdown - Harding gets tough hamstrung at Suez - Grivas sabotages military preparations Macmillan's pact - Eisenhower deal frees Makarios sounding the retreat - NATO allowed to mediate North Atlantic agenda -Eisenhower rejects the Macmillan plan pax americana - the settlement secures NATO ties a sham independence - the unsinkable aircraft-carrier constitutional collapse - the bloodbath begins America's secret option - a limited invasion a crude partition -the British defend Turkish enclaves the NATO plot - plans to split Cyprus fallen allies - Grivas risks war the "red priest" -assassination target crisis of trust - spying bases at risk the invisible hand - the Greek colonels oust Makarios searching questions - Kissinger and Callaghan are cross-examined warnings of a coup - the CIA knew in advance Washington stalls - Britain sends a task force America's veto - Kissinger blocks military deterrent the Turkish landing - Britain on the brink of war a creeping invasion - talks at Geneva the road to war - Kissinger over-rules Callaghan to the Attila Line - US pressure contains the advances sabotaged by Congress - the bitter legacy lives on appendix - interview with Henry Kissinger.