The Suez-Sinai Crisis 1956: A Retrospective and Reappraisal

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 3
Copyright......Page 4
Dedication......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
List of Maps and Illustrations......Page 9
Preface......Page 11
Part I Introduction......Page 14
1. The Suez-Sinai Campaign: Background......Page 15
Part II The Belligerents......Page 24
2. Military Lessons: The British Perspective......Page 25
3. The Military and Political Contradictions of the Suez Affair: A French Perspective......Page 55
4. The Military Lessons of the Sinai Campaign: The Israeli Perspective......Page 59
5. The Egyptian Armed Forces during the Kadesh Campaign......Page 70
6. Eden......Page 90
7. The Suez Group: A Retrospective on Suez......Page 97
8. Guy Mollet, the French Government and the SFIO......Page 109
9. The Road to Sevres: Franco-Israeli Strategic Cooperation......Page 119
10. Egypt: From Military Defeat to Political Victory......Page 126
11. The Suez-Sinai Campaign The Regional Dimension......Page 135
12. The Suez War in Arabic Literature......Page 143
13. The Sinai Campaign as a ‘War of No Alternative\': Ben-Gurion\'s View of the Israel-Egyptian Conflict......Page 149
14. The Influence of Political Considerations on Operational Planning in the Sinai Campaign......Page 161
15. Changes in Israel’s Concept of Security after Kadesh......Page 178
16. Operation Kadesh: A Legal Perspective......Page 187
17. The Sinai Campaign and the Limits of Power......Page 193
Part III The Superpowers......Page 201
18. The Impact of Suez on United States Middle East Policy, 1957–1958......Page 202
19. The United States and the Suez Crisis The Uses and Limits of Diplomacy......Page 213
20. The Soviet Union and the Suez Crisis......Page 219
Part IV Participants Record The Events......Page 229
21. Ben-Gurion’s Diary: The Suez-Sinai Campaign......Page 230
22. Abd al-Latif al-Bughdadi’s Memoirs......Page 263
23. Sayyid Mar’i’s Political Papers......Page 281
Appendix......Page 292
Appendix The Egyptian Army Operation Order 1 September 1956 for the Defence of Egypt......Page 294
Notes on Contributors......Page 307