1st Edition

The Southern Flank in Crisis, 1973-1976 Series III, Volume V: Documents on British Policy Overseas

Edited By Keith Hamilton, Patrick Salmon Copyright 2006
608 Pages
by Routledge

608 Pages
by Routledge

608 Pages
by Routledge

A fascinating collection of British foreign policy documents covering reactions in Whitehall to political change and revolution in the Mediterranean basin from 1973 to 1976. This volume contains many previously unpublished documents, including Joint Intelligence Committee papers, which cast new light on key events, such as the international crisis triggered by the coup against Archbishop... Read more

1. Cyprus: Prelude to Intervention, Oct. 1973-July 1974  2. Cyprus: Coup d’Etat and Intervention, July-August 1974  3. Cyprus: Sequel to Geneva, Aug. 1974-Feb. 1975  4. Political Change in Portugal and Spain, May 1974-April 1975  5. Political Change in Portugal and Spain, April 1975-April 1976

Biography

Keith Hamilton, Patrick Salmon

'Reflecting on his years as Foreign Secretary, James Callaghan noted that foreign policy was ‘a mixture of the old and the new. We may initiate but we also inherit’.  This fascinating new compilation of recently declassified documents, edited by Keith Hamilton and Patrick Salmon, reveals the truth of Callaghan’s words.'
Alexander Wieland, Office of the Historian, US Department of State