In 1956, the author, a radar operator in the RAF, was posted to a mobile radar unit in Cyprus and at that time Cyprus was a troubled island with an insurgency against all things British. Also, he arrived there just in time for what became known as the Suez Crisis. His unit of posting was 751 Signals Unit and for most of the two years he spent with that unit it was deployed at a place called Cape Greco. Cape Greco is a remote little peninsula, a horn of land that juts out South-East of Famagusta Bay. The unit's remote location meant running the gauntlet of ambushes and IEDs and injuries and...