I am firmly in the camp that this was a pig's ear debacle for nearly all who participated in it. It certainly laid a lot of blame at the feet of the British, who certainly deserve much of that blame, but seemed less inclined to apportion blame to the other actors involved. The supreme irony here was that Britain's biggest rival for influence in the region was ostensibly her ally the United States.Īt first, I did not really take to this book. He felt that Nasser was as big a tyrant and had to be confronted especially after the nationalisation of the Suez Canal. In his own mind, he was determined not to repeat the mistakes of the 1930s Appeasement Policy towards Fascist Italy and Germany. The Suez Canal crisis was an unmitigated disaster for Britain as Anthony Eden vainly sought to keep British influence in the Middle East through subterfuge and deceit accompanied by military action. Blood and Sand: Suez, Hungary and the Crisis That Shook the Worldīy Alex von Tunzelmann Blood and Sand tells the story of the unfolding events around the Suez Canal Crisis which were occurring at almost exactly the same time as the Hungarian uprising at the tail end of 1956.
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