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In the fall of 1956, Britain, France and Israel secretly joined forces against a threatening nationalist, Gamal Abdel Nasser, to launch one of the most bizarre and fateful episodes of postwar history. Little understood even a quarter of a century later, the Suez Crisis is finally brought brilliantly into focus by award-winning former Time correspondent Donald Neff. Nominated for the 1982 American Book Award in History, Warriors at Suez draws on a tangled web of previously untapped sources to present a document of truth and novelistic intensity.
Here are the giants of postwar history: Nasser, Ben-Gurion, Eden, Khrushchev, Mollet, and an Eisenhower newly revealed as a statesman of considerable strength; here is a controversial view of Israel's aggressive posture in the conflict; and here is the definitive account of the event that, more than any other, determined the shape of the region in the present day - that signaled the end of Britain and France as colonial powers, and that marked the emergence of the United States as the superpower arbiter in the Middle East.
Widely hailed by critics and historians, Warriors at Suez is an immeasurable contribution to our understanding of the history - and the future - of the Middle East.
In the fall of 1956, Britain, France and Israel secretly joined forces against a threatening nationalist, Gamal Abdel Nasser, to launch one of the most bizarre and fateful episodes of postwar history. Little understood even a quarter of a century later, the Suez Crisis is finally brought brilliantly into focus by award-winning former Time correspondent Donald Neff. Nominated for the 1982 American Book Award in History, Warriors at Suez draws on a tangled web of previously untapped sources to present a document of truth and novelistic intensity.
Here are the giants of postwar history: Nasser, Ben-Gurion, Eden, Khrushchev, Mollet, and an Eisenhower newly revealed as a statesman of considerable strength; here is a controversial view of Israel's aggressive posture in the conflict; and here is the definitive account of the event that, more than any other, determined the shape of the region in the present day - that signaled the end of Britain and France as colonial powers, and that marked the emergence of the United States as the superpower arbiter in the Middle East.
Widely hailed by critics and historians, Warriors at Suez is an immeasurable contribution to our understanding of the history - and the future - of the Middle East.
