Gamal Abdel Nasser may be written as Gamal Abd el-Nasr, Gamal ‘abd-an-Nasir and further variations. Multiple transliterations exist of Russian, Chinese, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and other place and personal names. The Suez Canal Zone & Sinai Peninsula, 1956Ģ2 October 1956 ‘We Must Keep the Americans Really Frightened’Ģ3 October 1956 The Hammer and Sickle Torn OutĢ4 October 1956 A Plan on a Cigarette PacketĢ9 October 1956 ‘Sandstorms in the Desert’ġ November 1956 ‘There is Something the Matter With Him’ģ November 1956 ‘Help the Burglar, Shoot the Householder’ĥ November 1956 ‘Hit ’Em With Everything in the Bucket’ Blood and Sand is essential to our understanding of the modern Middle East and resonates powerfully 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 the rise of American hegemony. Eisenhower, Nikita Khrushchev, Christian Pineau, Imre Nagy and David Ben-Gurion. Blood and Sand is a revelatory new history of these dramatic events, for the first time setting both crises in the context of the Arab–Israeli conflict, and the treacherous power politics of imperialism and oil.īlood and Sand tells this story hour by hour, with a fascinating cast of characters including Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anthony Eden, Dwight D. ISBN 9781847394606 Purchase this product now and earn 39 Points!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. It is illuminating to pick up this book with the twenty-first century’s crises of Brexit and Iraq in mind.’ Jeremy Bowen (BBC correspondent, and author of Six Days). Blood and Sandtells this story hour by hour, with a fascinating cast of characters including Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anthony Eden, 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.īlood and Sand is a revelatory new history of these dramatic events, for the first time setting both crises in the context of the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the treacherous power politics of imperialism and oil.
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