Eisenhower 1956: The President's Year of Crisis--Suez and the Brink of War

Title: Eisenhower 1956: The President's Year of Crisis--Suez and the Brink of War Author: David A Nichols ISBN: 9781439139332 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Published: 2011 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Publisher Description: A gripping tale of international intrigue and betray-al, Eisenhower 1956 is the white-knuckle story of how President Dwight D. Eisenhower guided the United States through the Suez Canal crisis of 1956. The crisis climaxed in a tumultuous nine-day period fraught with peril just prior to the 1956 presidential election, with Great Britain, France, and Israel invading Egypt while the Soviet Union ruthlessly crushed rebellion in Hungary. David A. Nichols, a leading expert on Eisenhower's presidency, draws on hundreds of documents declassified in the last thirty years, enabling the reader to look over Ike's shoulder and follow him day by day, sometimes hour by hour as he grappled with the greatest internati