Warriors at Suez

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Donald NEFF was born in York, Pennsylvania, in 1930 and has pursued a career in journalism. He has reported for the York Dispatch, United ^ess International, the Los Angeles Times, and Time magazine, where he also served as a correspondent, writer, and senior editor for sixteen years. His assignments have included tours in Japan, Vietnam, and Israel as well as posts in Texas, California, and New York. Among his journalism awards, the most recent is the Overseas Press Club's citation for the best magazine article in 1979 for Time's cover storv "The Colombia Connection."
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WARRIORS AT SUEZ
Eisenhower Takes America _into the Middle East
Warriors at Suez reveals for the first time one of the most bizarre events in the histoiy of American foreign affairs—the Suez Crisis of 195G. This obscured and misconceived episode saw Israel, France, and Britain in collusion to overthrow the Nasser regime for their own selfish and sometimes cynical... Tovább

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Donald NEFF was born in York, Pennsylvania, in 1930 and has pursued a career in journalism. He has reported for the York Dispatch, United ^ess International, the Los Angeles Times, and Time magazine, where he also served as a correspondent, writer, and senior editor for sixteen years. His assignments have included tours in Japan, Vietnam, and Israel as well as posts in Texas, California, and New York. Among his journalism awards, the most recent is the Overseas Press Club's citation for the best magazine article in 1979 for Time's cover storv "The Colombia Connection."
Distributed by Simon and Schuster
f i T m i-i
WARRIORS AT SUEZ
Eisenhower Takes America _into the Middle East
Warriors at Suez reveals for the first time one of the most bizarre events in the histoiy of American foreign affairs—the Suez Crisis of 195G. This obscured and misconceived episode saw Israel, France, and Britain in collusion to overthrow the Nasser regime for their own selfish and sometimes cynical motives, found the United States blissfully unaware of this conniving until twenty-four hours before the attack on Suez, and prompted Eisenhower's showdown against his longtime allies. Ultimately, it marked the end of Britain and France as colonial giants, the beginning of Israel's aggression against the Arabs that laid the foundation for two more wars, and the emergence, almost by default, of the United States as the superpower arbiter in the Middle East.
Don Neff, an award-winning Time correspondent, writes with novelistic urgency as he penetrates the tangled web of archives, diaries, letters, memorandums, transcripts of phone conversations, and other previously untapped sources to reconstruct this episode almost as it happened day by day, hour by hour.
Here are the giants of postwar histoiy: Eisenhower—at the moral high point of his presidency, yet succumbing to old age and allowing a unique opportunity to slip by
Eden—the dashing prime minister who failed to live up to his promise, befuddled by drugs as he takes his country to war
Ben Gurion — the warrior lion who deliberately sought war to find security
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Mollet—the pacifist socialist, who tried to establish French mle in Algeria by attacking Egypt
Khrushchev—the new Soviet leader who called for peace while slaughtering the Hungarian people
Nasser—the young Arab nationalist who defied the colonialists
Warriors at Suez is the fascinating account of an event that changed world history and put the United States in the position it occupies in the Middle East today.
Illustrated with 32 pages of photographs and maps Vissza