This neo-colonialist folly further rendered Western governments incapable of confronting the Soviet Union when it crushed the Hungarian uprising that, by coincidence, occurred during the Suez crisis. The resulting invasion in October and November was a colossal diplomatic, political, and military fiasco resolved when an infuriated Dwight Eisenhower forced a British withdrawal by withholding support for the plummeting pound. Attempts to keep their collusion secret quickly led them into a tangle of lies to their allies-in particular the United States-to the United Nations, and sometimes to their own governments. Each nation's leader had his own motivations, including control of the canal and oil pipelines, Nasser's support for Algerian rebels, Israeli access to the Red Sea, and a strong dislike of Nasser personally. Blood and Sand resonates strikingly with the problems of oil control, religious fundamentalism, and international unity that face the world today, and is essential reading for anyone concerned with the state of the modern Middle East and Europe.īlood and Sand includes 25-30 black-and-white photographs.A tale of political bungling with tragic consequences on two continents.įollowing the nationalization of the Suez Canal by President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt in July 1956, the governments of Great Britain, France, and Israel entered into a scheme for a joint invasion of Egypt. This is a revelatory history of these dramatic events and people, for the first time setting both crises in the context of the global Cold War, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the treacherous power politics of imperialism and oil.
Eisenhower, the American president, torn between an old world order and a new one in the very same week that his own fate as president was to be decided by the American people. Blood and Sand delivers this story in an hour-by-hour account through a fascinating international cast of characters: Anthony Eden, the British prime minister, caught in a trap of his own making Gamal Abdel Nasser, the bold young populist leader of Egypt David Ben-Gurion, the aging Zionist hero of Israel Guy Mollet, the bellicose French prime minister and Dwight D. Over sixteen extraordinary days in October and November of that year, the twin crises involving Suez and Hungary pushed the world to the brink of a nuclear conflict and what many at the time were calling World War III. The year 1956 was a turning point in history. Eisenhower-which shaped the Middle East and Europe we know today. A lively, revelatory popular history that tells the story of both 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.
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