| Description |
479 pages, 32 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Cast of characters -- Prologue -- Part One: The fuse -- Attackers will not go away unpunished / Ben Gurion -- Helpless and utterly depressed / Sharett -- Where is dignity? / Nasser -- It could lead to war / Dulles -- Reduced to derision / Eban -- Part Two: The spark -- Let us compete/ Khrushchev -- Without the United States, Britain is alone / Churchill -- I was a victim myself / Mollet -- We had no interest in old fashion domination / Lloyd -- I prefer Arabs to Jews / Eden -- We have decided to fight / Peres -- Nasser soon must take vigorous steps / Byroade -- Weaken Nasser / Eisenhower -- Part Three: The explosion -- Israelis have something to lose / Hammarskjold -- We'll be plastered as assassins and baby killers / Mountbatten -- Eden is looking for a pretext / Pineau -- An opportunity to settle accounts / Dayan -- Ugly and unsmiling / Lodge -- The law of the jungle has been invoked / Gaitskell -- We have these socialists to lick / Humphrey -- Epilogue |
| Summary |
Drawing on numerous, previously unexplored sources, this account of the Suez Canal crisis draws vivid portraits of the leaders involved--Eisenhower, Eden, Ben-Gurion, Mollet, Khrushchev, and Nasser--and analyzes its background and causes |
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History of "the Suez Crisis of 1956." |
| Analysis |
Egypt - History - Intervention, 1956 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 458-461) and index |
| SUBJECT |
Egypt -- Foreign relations -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86003625
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Egypt -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041284 -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012476
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Egypt -- History -- Intervention, 1956.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041310
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Egypt -- Politics and government -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114900
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Middle East -- History -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090509
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Suez Canal (Egypt) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85129633 -- History -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006165
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| LC no. |
81008465 |
| ISBN |
0671410105 |
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9780671410100 |
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