Fighting EOKA

David French was born in Essex in 1954 and educated at the University of York and the War Studies Department at King's College London. After briefly holding teaching posts at North London Polytechnic, the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Heriot-Watt University, he spent 27 years at University College London, before taking early retirement to become a full-time writer. The author of eight previous books, he has been the recipient of the Arthur Goodzeit Prize of the New York Military Affairs Symposium, and is a three-times winner of the Templer Medal awarded by the Society for Army Historical Research. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Historical Society and the Historical Association.

• Introduction ; 1. The British Colonial Administration and Enosis, 1878-1950 ; 2. Makarios, Grivas, and EOKA ; 3. 'A game of cops and robbers': The Start of the Insurgency, April 1955-March 1956 ; 4. EOKA versus the Security Forces, March 1956- March 1957 ; 5. Loosing Hearts and Minds ; 6. 'The Nazi Methods of Hitler': EOKA's Counter-narrative ; 7. The Governorship of Sir Hugh Foot and the descent into inter-communal violence, 1957 - 1958 ; 8. The Macmillan Plan and the Zurich and London Agreements ; Conclusion ; Bibliography ; Index

exceptional ... It is no easy task for anyone to write about the Cyprus emergency because it can excite passions from the various sides involved, but French succeeds because he tells it how it is. His account is impressive ... and logically structured. The argument is based on a thorough analysis of the archival material, including the recently released FCO files ... as a historian I am thankful that he has done such a thorough job