This is an analysis, based on newly available evidence, of the Suez crisis of 1956, its origins, and its consequences. The contributors are all leading authorities, and some, like Mordechai Bar-On, Robert Bowie and Adam Watson, were active participants in the events of the time.
This book, by a prominent historian specializing in the Middle East, tells the story.
They already opposed Nasser and were worried at the threat to maritime traffic in the Canal. This book traces the course of subsequent events.
... letter to President Eisenhower in the early stages of the crisis, and became a constant refrain for Eden (Message from Eden to Eisenhower, 5 August 1956, cited in Peter G. Boyle, (ed.), The Eden–Eisenhower Correspondence, 1955–1957 ...
A personal account of the 1956 Suez crisis written by the British Foreign Secretary at the time the crisis took place.
(Topham Picturepoint) UNEF, a group of international peacekeepers, sprang from Canadian foreign minister Lester Pearson's early-November proposals. Attempting to buy time, Eden agreed to the presence of UNEF in Egypt, ...
This review of the Suez Crisis gives a chapter each to such key players as the Chief of the Imperial General Staff and the Secretary to the Cabinet.
The Suez-Crisis provides: * key documents, as primary sources, incorporated in the text * an extensive range of other source material, including images * analysis of the significance of the sources discussed, and their usefulness as ...
The 1956 Suez Crisis is the first example of a pre-emptive strike after World War II. The episode provides lessons about the lengths to which nations will go to secure their interests and the limits of the United Nation’s influence.
Draws on hundreds of newly declassified documents to present an account of the Suez crisis that reveals the considerable danger it posed as well as the influence of the 34th president's illness and the 1956 election campaign.
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