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Bounded by the Mediterranean and Red seas and the gulfs of Aqaba and Suez, the Sinai peninsula is a generally desolate stretch of sand dunes and granite mountains that is twice the size of Maryland. The desert is more hospitable to scorpions and camels than to men. Apart from Bedouins who wander the dunes and camp in the scattered oases, and soldiers who cautiously patrol old battlefields, Sinai's inhabitants hug the coastlines. Yet for all the peninsula's vast emptiness and apparent lack of natural wealth, Israel appears to be determined to hold on to a third...
...furious poor of Cairo, Alexandria, Suez and a string of smaller towns, hearing Kaissouni's announcement, poured into the streets in a 48-hour rampage. "Dismayed and distraught," Sadat hurried back to the capital from his winter home at Aswan and ordered troops to back up his besieged riot police. For one of the few times in his six-year administration, Sadat was apparently stunned and frightened by the violence of the Egyptian masses. On the drive from a helicopter pad to his office, his swift-moving convoy was guarded by three select commando battalions and two armored units...
...life spanned some of the most glorious years of modern British history and some of the most traumatic-from the empire's pinnacle at Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, through two devastating wars, to the humiliating retreat from Suez in 1956 and the prospect of devolution at home. For three decades he was a highly visible, thoroughly photogenic presence at international conferences, almost boyishly handsome even in middle age. Sartorially splendid in the Savile Row tradition, he looked and talked like an MGM image of a British diplomat. But his long career in politics and foreign policy involved...
...skillfully executed his master's grand strategy." Seldom was a man so groomed for his country's highest political office. Yet when it came Eden's turn to serve as Prime Minister, he had perhaps outlived both his time and his vision: he disastrously mishandled the Suez crisis and thus sped the dissolution of the British empire...
When Egyptian Strongman Gamal Abdel Nasser seized the Suez Canal in July 1956, Eden concluded that strong action was necessary to keep open what he regarded as the life line linking Britain to its Asian and East African colonies. He thus backed a joint British, French and Israeli invasion of Egypt in October. World opinion was outraged, as were many Britons; Washington was furious that it had not been consulted, while the Soviets threatened to send "volunteers" to help the Egyptians. Because of international pressure, the invading forces pulled out 21 days later. To escape blistering criticism, Eden...