Blood and Sand

Suez, Hungary and the Crisis That Shook the World
The thrilling account of sixteen extraordinary days in October and November 1956, when the twin crises of Suez and Hungary pushed the world to the brink of a nuclear conflict.
‘This is proper history. It is illuminating to pick up this book with the twenty-first century’s crises of Brexit and Iraq in mind.’ Jeremy Bowen (BBC correspondent, and author of Six Days).

Over sixteen extraordinary days in October and November 1956, the twin crises of 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 Sandis a revelatory new history of these dramatic events, for the first time setting both crises in the context of the ArabIsraeli conflict, and the treacherous power politics of imperialism and oil.
Blood and Sandtells this story hour by hour, with a fasci