Suez

By Keith Kyle

Book Overview

With Britain's prestige and world power severely in decline, the nationalization of the Suez Canal in 1956 gave her a chance to make one last stand. Together with France she became involved in a notorious deception surrounding the Suez. Kyle provides a full history of this sordid affair at a time when many of the same issues--Middle East struggles, oil control, superpower collusion--have been brought to the forefront by the Gulf Crisis. Maps and illustrations.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312065094
• ISBN13: 9780312065096
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Length: 656 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.2" x 6.6" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Worth the effort

A great many critics (here, too) claim Kyle has written a book that is very much hampered by his excruciating tendency to relate the most obscure details. While this is true, it in no way detracts from the merits of this great book. It may not be the most pleasant read on the 1956 Suez Crisis, but it is hard to find any other account that is as complete as Kyle's. For scholars and students Suez: Britain's End of Empire in the Middle East contains a wealth of useful information. If readers want personal colour (or, in Shuckburgh's case, to be distracted), they should read Shuckburgh's diary (note his words on his garden flowers), Nuttings account or Eden's biography by Rhodes James.