The 1956 Suez War and the new world order in the Middle East : exodus in reverse /
The 1956 Suez War, fought between Egypt and the improbable coalition of Britain, France, and Israel, was a key point in the history of the Middle East and the Arab-Israeli conflict. A blitzkrieg-style Israeli victory proved that Israel's victory in the 1948 war was not an accident that could be...
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Lanham :
Lexington Books,
[2015]
Lanham, Maryland : [2015] |
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Table of Contents:
- Who was who in the Middle East, 1954
- Wild rhetoric and real estate: escalation, 1954-1956
- French steel, British will: planning the Suez War, July-October 1956
- A collusion course: an unlikely alliance, October 1956
- Flying cutters and the paratrooper gambit: opening moves, October 28-30, 1956
- Success and fiasco at Abu-Ageila: October 30-November 2, 1956
- Exodus in reverse: Israel takes Sinai, October 31-November 5, 1956
- The peacekeeping attack: October 31-November 5, 1956
- Hot and cold wars: the allied invasion and the aftermath, November 5, 1956-March 6, 1957
- Epilogue: the legacy of Suez