New Review: Ripped Apart: Volume 1: The Cyprus Crisis 1963-64

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I’ve read a number of books about 20th-century so-called brush wars, and it becomes fairly obvious over time that these small, relatively isolated conflicts often serve as relief valves for larger nations who dare not directly confront each other. In the nuclear age, such aggressiveness would almost certainly be fatal.

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