Small Wars (29 page)

Author’s Note

Small Wars
is a fiction. With the greatest of respect for history and those people who experienced life in Cyprus and England in the 1950s, I have occasionally amalgamated, compressed or otherwise manipulated places and events to suit my story. I should like to make clear, too, that all the characters in
Small Wars
– with the obvious exceptions of well-known historical figures – are entirely fictional.

Acknowledgements

For
Small Wars
:

I am grateful to the many people who gave of their time and knowledge during the writing of the book.

I should like to thank the website britains-smallwars.com, which not only partly inspired the title, but also gave me invaluable and detailed information, military, political and personal, in the accounts of soldiers who served in Cyprus and elsewhere. They are owed an enormous debt of gratitude.

In the course of my research, these books were helpful to me:
The Decline and Fall of the British Empire
by Piers Brendon;
Time at War
by Nicholas Mosley;
Hot War, Cold War
by Colin McInnes;
Bitter Lemons of Cyprus
by Lawrence Durrell;
Instruments of War
by Peter R. Cullis; ‘
Terrible Hard’, Says Alice
by Christopher Wood;
Murder, Mutiny and the Military
by Gerry R. Rubin;
The Call-Up: A History of National Service
by Tom Hickman;
Unreasonable Behaviour
by Don McCullin;
British Infantry Uniforms Since
1660 by Michael Barthorp and Pierre Turner.

My thanks also go to the staff at the British Library; RMA Sandhurst; the Imperial War Museum; Bulford Camp, Wiltshire; Episkopi Garrison, Cyprus; and to Dr Ian Palmer. Thanks to Alexander Baring, and the other serving soldiers with whom I spoke and had email correspondence. They were without exception kind, helpful and informative.

Many thanks to Christopher Wood, for his help and interest. I am also extremely grateful to David Patterson for his memories of Cyprus during his National Service, his wonderful diaries and his generosity in sharing both. Thanks to Rebecca Harris and Anna Parker, and to Julia Gregson for her Cyprus memories. Many thanks also go to Martin Bradley, and to Charlie Hopkinson, whose patience and rigour in answering my questions made an enormous contribution during the writing.

I would particularly like to thank Clara Farmer for her insight and dedication; she has been a true friend to the book. Also, many thanks to Sue Amaradivakara. I am proud to have
Small Wars
published by Chatto & Windus, and grateful to everybody there; it could not be in better hands.

Thanks also to Terry Karten at HarperCollins, New York.

Thanks to my agent and friend, Caroline Wood, for her energy, consistency and integrity.

For myself:

To Tim, Daisy, Tabitha and Fred Boyd; Evan, Joanna and Melissa Jones; and my good friends – my love and gratitude.

Sadie Jones,

London, April 2009

About the Author

SADIE JONES
’s first novel,
The Outcast
, was published to wide critical acclaim and won the Costa First Novel Award in Great Britain. It was also a finalist for the prestigious Orange Prize, as well as a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction. Jones lives in London.

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Credits

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Copyright

Extract from “For the Fallen” by Laurence Binyon. The Society of Authors is the literary representative of the Estate of Laurence Binyon.

SMALL WARS
. Copyright © 2010 by Sadie Jones. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of Hyperion e-books.

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EPub Edition © December 2009 ISBN: 978-0-06-196632-3

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