The End of Empire. Cyprus: A Soldier's Story

by Martin Bell

Martin Bell, the former BBC war 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1473848180
• ISBN13: 9781473848184
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"