Blood and sand : Suez, Hungary, and Eisenhower's campaign for peace /

A revelatory popular history that tells the story of the Suez Crisis and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, a tale of conspiracy and revolutions, spies and terrorists, kidnappings and assassination plots, the fall of the British Empire and the rise of American hegemony under the heroic leadership of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Von Tunzelmann, Alex, 1977- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Harper, [2016]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Eisenhower, Dwight D. > (Dwight David), > 1890-1969. Cold War. United States > Foreign relations > 1953-1961. Hungary > History > Revolution, 1956. Sinai Campaign, 1956. Egypt > History > Intervention, 1956. HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century. HISTORY / Middle East / Egypt (see also Ancient / Egypt) HISTORY / World.

Table of Contents:

"I want him murdered"
"We must keep the Americans really frightened"
The hammer and sickle torn out
A plan on a cigarette packet
Bloody Thursday
The two musketeers
The Omega Plan
No picnic
"Sandstorms in the desert"
Ultimatum
Perfidious Albion
"There is something the matter with him"
"Love to Nasty"
"Help the burglar, shoot the householder"
Reaping the whirlwind
"Hit 'em with everything in the bucket"
Back down
"The curse of the pharaohs"
Fates.