Blood and Sand

Suez, Hungary, and Eisenhower's Campaign for Peace

534 pages

English language

Published Nov. 7, 2016

ISBN:
978-0-06-224924-1
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OCLC Number:
939703938

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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.

2 editions

Subjects

  • Sinai Campaign, 1956
  • Cold War
  • Foreign relations
  • History

Places

  • United States
  • Hungary
  • Egypt