Descent to Suez: Diaries, 1951-56
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986. First U.K. Edition. 25 cm, 380, illus., map, index, erasure inside front flyleaf, slight wear to DJ edges. No great power fell so far, so fast, as did Britain in the years 1951-1956, a half-decade that opened with the final return of Winston Churchill and closed with the defeat of Anthony Eden, his political heir, and of the nation itself in the Suez Crisis. The author was Eden's private secretary, and then served as head of the Middle Eastern Office at the Foreign Office. Condition: good, very good.
Keywords: Winston Churchill, Egypt, Israel, Suez Canal, Palestine, Geneva Conference, United Nations, British Empire, Great Britain
[Book #23219]
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