Blood and Sand: Suez, Hungary and Eisenhower's Campaign for Peace (von Tunzelmann, 2016)
1956 · Resource
Alex von Tunzelmann's hour-by-hour account of the sixteen days in 1956 when the Suez invasion and the Hungarian uprising broke together — collusion, crisis and the end of the imperial illusion.
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- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Korean War (1950)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)