286. Suez Crisis: Hungary Revolts & Britain Bombs Egypt (Part 3)

Hello and welcome to Empire with me, Anita Arnim. And me, William Drymple. And again we are delighted to be joined by Alex von Tunzelmann. author of Blood and Sand. It is a a marvellous book and we left you on quite the cliffhanger.

I mean I think it's one of the best cliffhangers we've ever done. World War III is about to erupt. I mean it's a biggie. I mean it it it is a biggie and I think people these days do not realize they talk about, you know, the Cuban Missile crisis or they talk about the times we're living in today. But this was properly on the brink.

And just remind us why you were looking at two different arenas of action which both seem to be going to hell in a hand cart simultaneously. That's absolutely right. So what you had is Britain and France colluding with Israel to start a war in the Middle East, specifically for Israel to stage an invasion of Egypt that would allow Britain and France to intervene. um ostensibly to protect the Suez Canal, but actually really to take over and topple Gamal Abdel Nasser, the leader of Egypt.

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