![]() ![]() ![]() The Eisenhower administration was confronted by overlapping crises that brought the United States in opposition to its allies England and France at a time when it seemed to President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John F. Both events had a tremendous impact on the geo-strategic balance in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Last week was the 60th anniversary of the 1956 Suez Crisis as well as the Soviet invasion of Hungary. Blood & Sand is essential to our understanding of the modern Middle East and resonates strikingly with the problems of oil control, religious fundamentalism and international unity that face the world today. ![]() ![]() It is a tale of conspiracy and revolutions spies and terrorists kidnappings and assassination plots the fall of the British Empire and rise of American hegemony. Eisenhower, Anthony Eden, Christian Pineau, Nikita Khrushchev, Imre Nagy and David Ben-Gurion. Blood & Sand is a revelatory new history of these dramatic events, 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.īlood & Sand tells this story hour by hour through a fascinating international cast of characters including Gamal Abdel Nasser, Dwight D. Over sixteen extraordinary days in October and November 1956, the twin crises of Suez and Hungary pushed the world to the brink of a nuclear conflict and what many at the time were calling World War III. ![]()
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