Blood and sand : Suez, Hungary, and Eisenhower's campaign for peace / Alex Von Tunzelmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Von Tunzelmann, Alex, 1977- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Cold War.

United States--Foreign relations--1953-1961.

United States.

International relations.

Hungary--History--Revolution, 1956.

Hungary.

History.

Sinai Campaign, 1956.

Egypt--History--Intervention, 1956.

Egypt.

HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century.

HISTORY / Middle East / Egypt (see also Ancient / Egypt).

HISTORY / World.

Diplomatic relations.

Local Subjects:

HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century.

HISTORY / Middle East / Egypt (see also Ancient / Egypt).

HISTORY / World.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 534 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Harper, [2016]

Summary:

"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 President Dwight D. Eisenhower--which shaped the Middle East and Europe we know today"--From dust jacket.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 503-509) and index.

ISBN:

006224924X

9780062249241

OCLC:

939703938