Blood and Sand: Suez, Hungary and the Crisis That Shook the World

Author: Alex von Tunzelmann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 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. 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...Read more