Island In Revolt
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage; price clipped. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: Previous owner. Binding condition: Intact.
Few conflicts of the twentieth century were as complex and charged as the Cyprus Emergency, and Charles Foley's Island in Revolt stands as one of the most vivid firsthand chronicles of that turbulent struggle. As editor of the Times of Cyprus, Foley was uniquely positioned at the epicentre of the EOKA campaign led by the elusive General Grivas, and his account details the guerrilla warfare, political intrigue, and communal violence that tore the island apart through the late 1950s. Writing with the sharp eye of a seasoned journalist, Foley presents a narrative that is both rigorously reported and compellingly human — capturing the desperation of fighters in the Troodos Mountains, the machinations of British colonial administration, and the anguished hopes of ordinary Cypriots caught between competing nationalisms. A vital document of decolonisation, Island in Revolt raises questions about loyalty, resistance, and the price of freedom that continue to resonate in Cyprus and beyond.
Author: Charles Foley
Format: Hardback
Published: 1962, Longmans
Genre: History
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage; price clipped. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: Previous owner. Binding condition: Intact.
Few conflicts of the twentieth century were as complex and charged as the Cyprus Emergency, and Charles Foley's Island in Revolt stands as one of the most vivid firsthand chronicles of that turbulent struggle. As editor of the Times of Cyprus, Foley was uniquely positioned at the epicentre of the EOKA campaign led by the elusive General Grivas, and his account details the guerrilla warfare, political intrigue, and communal violence that tore the island apart through the late 1950s. Writing with the sharp eye of a seasoned journalist, Foley presents a narrative that is both rigorously reported and compellingly human — capturing the desperation of fighters in the Troodos Mountains, the machinations of British colonial administration, and the anguished hopes of ordinary Cypriots caught between competing nationalisms. A vital document of decolonisation, Island in Revolt raises questions about loyalty, resistance, and the price of freedom that continue to resonate in Cyprus and beyond.