num_pages: 178
description: Journalist Christopher Hitchens examines events leading up to the partition of Cyprus and its legacy. He argues that the intervention of four major foreign powers Turkey, Greece, Britain, and the United States turned a local dispute into a major disaster. In a new Afterword, Hitchens reviews the implications of Cyprus's applications for European Union membership and more. 224 pp.
language: English
title: Hostage to History: Cyprus from the Ottomans to Kissinger
titlecomplete: Hostage to History: Cyprus from the Ottomans to Kissinger
genres: Greece, Politics, Philosophy, World History, War, Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 160
publisher: Verso