Download or read book Hostage to History written by Christopher Hitchens and published by Verso. This book was released on 1997 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.