{"product_id":"blood-and-sand-suez-hungary-and-eisenhowers-campaign-for-peace-9780062249241","title":"Blood and Sand: Suez  Hungary  and Eisenhower's Campaign for Peace","description":"\u003cp\u003eA lively  revelatory popular history that tells the story of both the Suez Crisis and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956a tale of conspiracy and revolutions  spies and terrorists  kidnappings and assassination plots  the fall of the British Empire and the rise of American hegemony under the heroic leadership of President Dwight D. Eisenhowerwhich shaped the Middle East and Europe we know today. The year 1956 was a turning point in history. Over sixteen extraordinary days in October and November of that year  the twin crises involving 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 delivers this story in an hour-by-hour account through a fascinating international cast of characters: Anthony Eden  the British prime minister  caught in a trap of his own making; Gamal Abdel Nasser  the bold young populist leader of Egypt; David Ben-Gurion  the aging Zionist hero of Israel; Guy Mollet  the bellicose French prime minister; and Dwight D. Eisenhower  the American president  torn between an old world order and a new one in the very same week that his own fate as president was to be decided by the American people. This is a revelatory history of these dramatic events and people  for the first time setting both crises in the context of the global Cold War  the Arab-Israeli conflict  and the treacherous power politics of imperialism and oil. Blood and Sand resonates strikingly with the problems of oil control  religious fundamentalism  and international unity that face the world today  and is essential reading for anyone concerned with the state of the modern Middle East and Europe. Blood and Sand includes 25-30 black-and-white photographs.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45953243381813,"sku":"ByrdShop_006224924X","price":32.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780062249241.jpg?v=1788182742","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/blood-and-sand-suez-hungary-and-eisenhowers-campaign-for-peace-9780062249241","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}