After Suez : adrift in the American century / Martin Woollacott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woollacott, Martin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Egypt--History--Intervention, 1956.

Egypt.

History.

Great Britain--Foreign relations--1945-1964.

Great Britain.

International relations.

Suez Canal (Egypt)--History.

Suez Canal (Egypt).

Physical Description:

ix, 166 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2006.

Summary:

Fifty years after Antony Eden' s fateful decision to take on the Egyptian President, Gamal Abdel Nasser, veteran "Guardian" journalist Martin Woollacott brings to life the arguments, personalities and events surrounding the crisis, and follows its disastrous legacy. He draws on four decades of foreign affairs reporting to show how it changed the Middle East, and the world. More than anything else Suez exposed with brutal clarity that Britain cannot pursue any policy in the world without the support of America. Woollacott' s richly fascinating book shows both how Suez led to where we are today, and how parlously Blair and Bush have failed to learn its lessons.

Contents:

1 The Roads from Suez 1

2 England's Fall 21

3 Two Faces of Freedom 47

4 The Search for Perfect Force 75

5 From Suez to Iraq 101

6 Magic Carpets 129.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-160) and index.

ISBN:

1845111761

OCLC:

68772507