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

Author
Von Tunzelmann, Alex, 1977- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/​Created
  • New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2016]
  • ©2016
Description
xvi, 534 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

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    "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.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 503-509) and index.
    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.
    ISBN
    • 006224924X ((hardcover))
    • 9780062249241 ((hardcover))
    OCLC
    939703938
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