1956 Suez War and the New World Order in the Middle East

Exodus in Reverse

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

AvYagil Henkin

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The 1956 Suez War, fought between Egypt and the improbable coalition of Britain, France, and Israel, was a key point in the history of the Middle East and the Arab-Israeli conflict. A blitzkrieg-style Israeli victory proved that Israel's victory in the 1948 war was not an accident to be swiftly fixed by Arab armies, and gave the country eleven years of relative peace until the next major conflict. An Anglo-French blunder marked the decline of British and French influence in the Middle East, to be replaced by Soviet and US involvement. Egyptian defiance of the great powers of the past marked the high point of Arab nationalism.Despite the importance of the Suez conflict, almost no comprehensive military history of it exists. This book changes this by presenting a clear, comprehensive narrative of the conflict with a special emphasis on the military decisions and the short- and long-term results of the conflict, both tactical and strategic, military and political.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-10-16
Mått159 x 237 x 30 mm
Vikt644 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor340
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780739187203

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Chapter 1: Who Was Who in the Middle East, 1954Chapter 2: Wild Rhetoric and Real Estate: Escalation, 1954-1956Chapter 3: French Steel, British Will: Planning the Suez War, July-October 1956Chapter 4: A Collusion Course: An Unlikely Alliance, October 1956Chapter 5: Flying Cutters and the Paratrooper Gambit: Opening Moves, October 28-30, 1956Chapter 6: Success and Fiasco at Abu-Ageila: October 30-November 2, 1956Chapter 7: Exodus in Reverse: Israel Takes Sinai, October 31-November 5, 1956Chapter 8: The Peacekeeping Attack: October 31-November 5, 1956Chapter 9: Hot and Cold Wars: The Allied Invasion and the Aftermath, November 5, 1956-March 6, 1957Epilogue: The Legacy of Suez

Yagil Henkin…describes and analyzes the Suez War in all of its complexity in this thoughtful and revealing account. In view of the quite extensive body of research already devoted to the origins, course, and consequences of the war, one might be tempted to think that nothing new remains to be said about it. Henkin’s book, however, offers a fresh reconsideration of the war. Through the judicious mining and synthesizing of information collected from a broad range of primary and secondary sources, he sheds new light on various dimensions of the war, especially with regard to the IDF’s actions during Operation Kadesh…. A brief review, of course, cannot do justice to the richness of Henkin’s book. Suffice it to say that with respect to substance, his work is first rate.