Blood and Sand: Suez, Hungary, and Eisenhower's Campaign for Peace

"Artfully integrates the complex, simultaneous Suez and Hungarian crises of 1956 into a single story of Cold War conflict as no one has before." —Publishers Weekly

The year 1956 was a turning point in history. Over sixteen extraordinary days in October and November, the Suez Crisis and the Hungarian Revolution pushed the world to the brink of a nuclear conflict and what many at the time were calling World War III.

Blood and Sand relates this story hour-by-hour, through an international cast...