Helion & Company Ltd.. New. Date: 2017. Paperback. Middle East @ War No.8. New paperback copies at a reduced price. ; Illustrated with colour and b/w photographs, and colour aircraft profiles. ; 72 pages . 2017. Helion & Company Ltd. ISBN 1911096613 9781911096610 [GB]

ISBN10: 1911096613, ISBN13: 9781911096610, [publisher: Helion and Company] Softcover
[Castle Donington, DERBY, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2017]
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Paperback / softback. New. Sixty years since the tripartite aggression of France, Great Britain and Israel against Egypt, this is the first account about Egyptian military operations during the Suez War of 1956 (or `Suez Crisis', as it is known in the West). Based on research with the help of official Egyptian documentation and recollections of crucial participants, this book provides an unique and exclusive insight into the `other side' of a war that many consider has marked `the end of the British Empire'. From the Western point of view, the situation is usually explained in quite simple terms: in retaliation for President Gamal Abdel Nasser's nationalisation of the Universal Suez Canal Company - and thus the strategically important waterway of the Suez Canal - France and Great Britan (operating in concert with Israel) launched the operation codenamed 'Musketeer'. Divided into three phases, each shaded into the other; this aimed at obliterating the Egyptian Air Force, occupying the whole of the Suez Canal and toppling Nasser's government. From the Egyptian point of view, backgrounds were much more complex than this. Striving to modernize the country, a new and inexperienced government in Cairo launched a number of major projects, including one for the construction of a gigantic Asswan Dam on the Nile. The only Western power ready to help finance this project, the USA conditioned its support with basing rights for its military. With the ...

ISBN10: 1911096613, ISBN13: 9781911096610, [publisher: Helion and Company] Softcover
[Columbia, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2017]
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Helion & Co Ltd, Date: 2016. Paperback. New. 112 pages. 11.75x11.75x8.25 inches. 2016. Helion & Co Ltd ISBN 1911096613 9781911096610 [GB]