Published on the 50th anniversary of the Suez Crisis, this compelling book offers the first full account of Britain's painful withdrawal from Egypt in the 1950s. The Egyptian emergency - which Winston Churchill called the 'Battle of the Canal Zone' - began in 1951 and ended three years later when Britain reluctantly agreed to evacuate 80,000 troops from the Suez base by 1956. Michael Thornhill explores the interaction of politics, diplomacy, strategic planning and guerrilla warfare to explain how the largest military base ...
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Published on the 50th anniversary of the Suez Crisis, this compelling book offers the first full account of Britain's painful withdrawal from Egypt in the 1950s. The Egyptian emergency - which Winston Churchill called the 'Battle of the Canal Zone' - began in 1951 and ended three years later when Britain reluctantly agreed to evacuate 80,000 troops from the Suez base by 1956. Michael Thornhill explores the interaction of politics, diplomacy, strategic planning and guerrilla warfare to explain how the largest military base in the world - and the defining feature of Britain's global power status - was relinquished. In so doing, new light is shed on the origins of the disastrous re-invasion of Egypt in the autumn of 1956. The real folly of 'Suez' is thus revealed as never before. The key themes of "Road to Suez" - Western imperialism in the Middle East, the rise of Arab nationalism and militant Islam, the politics of 'regime change' - have a contemporary resonance which will engage anyone wishing to understand the Middle East today.
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Good. x, [6], 270, [2] pages. Ink marks noted on many pages. Includes 39 black and white Illustrations, as well as 4 black and white maps of the Middle East. Also includes Introduction and Acknowledgments, as well as A Note on Spelling, and Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Chapters include The Politics of Occupation, Countdown to Crisis, Canal Zone Siege, The Burning of Cairo, Coup d'etat, The Sudan Complication, Redefining Global strategy, Inertia and its Discontents, The Politics of Disengagement, and Epilogue. Michael T. Thornhill Ph.D. is an authority and published author on Egypt, the Suez Crisis and the post war Middle East. He is the academic director of Boston University's European Study Abroad organization. Michael has degrees from Leeds University and the LSE, and a Ph.D. from Oxford. This book is about Britain's 'forgotten' Suez campaign, one that occurred in the first half of the 1950s and entailed a political, diplomatic, and military struggle with and within Egypt for possession of the Suez Canal Zone, which at the time was the largest military base in the world. This more drawn-out crisis was pivotal in the making of the modern Middle East, from providing the circumstances for the rise of an Egyptian leader who became the Arab world's most charismatic statesman, to engineering the success of the United States over Britain as the dominant "outside" power in the region. "Road to Suez" is exceptionally well-researched and a detailed account of Britain's relations with Egypt before the Suez Crisis of 1956. Michael Thornhill's feel for the period is remarkable. It is not hard to see why Britain ended up in the Suez Crisis when one reads this book. Published on the 50th anniversary of the Suez Crisis, this compelling book offers the first full account of Britain's painful withdrawal from Egypt in the 1950s. The Egyptian emergency-which Winston Churchill called the 'Battle of the Canal Zone'-began in 1951 and ended three years later when Britain reluctantly agreed to evacuate 80, 000 troops from the Suez base by 1956. Michael Thornhill explores the interaction of politics, diplomacy, strategic planning and guerrilla warfare to explain how the largest military base in the world-and the defining feature of Britain's global power status-was relinquished. In so doing, new light is shed on the origins of the disastrous re-invasion of Egypt in the autumn of 1956. The real folly of 'Suez' is thus revealed as never before. The key themes of "Road to Suez"-Western imperialism in the Middle East, the rise of Arab nationalism and militant Islam, the politics of 'regime change'-have a contemporary resonance which will engage anyone wishing to understand the Middle East today.
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