Blood and sand: Suez, Hungary, and Eisenhower's campaign for peace [First Harper paperbacks edition] 9780062249258, 0062249258

"A revelatory popular history that tells the story of the Suez Crisis and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956--a tale

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English Pages xvi, 534 pages: illustrations, maps ; 23 cm Year 2017;2016

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Blood and sand: Suez, Hungary, and Eisenhower's campaign for peace [First Harper paperbacks edition]
 9780062249258, 0062249258

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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