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Blood and sand : Suez, Hungary, and Eisenhower's campaign for peace / Alex Von Tunzelmann.
Author
Von Tunzelmann, Alex, 1977-
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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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Firestone Library - Stacks
E835 .V66 2016
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Subject(s)
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David) 1890-1969
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Cold War
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Sinai Campaign, 1956
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United States
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Foreign relations
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1953-1961
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Hungary
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History
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Revolution, 1956
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Egypt
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History
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Intervention, 1956
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Summary note
"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.
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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.
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ISBN
006224924X ((hardcover))
9780062249241 ((hardcover))
OCLC
939703938
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