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Blood and Sand

Alex Von Tunzelmann

"A revelatory popular history that tells the story of the Suez Crisis and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956--a 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. Eisenhower--which shaped the Middle East and Europe we know today"--From dust jacket.

GenresEisenhower, Dwight DCold War (1945-1989)Intervention in Egypt (1956)Revolution (Hungary : 1956)Sinai Campaign (1956)Cold War

534 pages

English edition · First published 2016 by Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers · ISBN 9780062249241

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