Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [481]-509) and index

Illustrations

mapsillustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Blood and sand

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

939703938

Responsibility statement

Alex Von Tunzelmann

Sub title

Suez, Hungary, and Eisenhower's campaign for peace

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

Table Of 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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