Lexington Books
Pages: 340
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Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
978-0-7391-8720-3 • Hardback • October 2015 • $149.00 • (£115.00)
978-1-4985-1672-3 • Paperback • April 2019 • $53.99 • (£42.00)
Yagil Henkin is a military historian at the Israeli Army's Command and General Staff College.
Chapter 1: Who Was Who in the Middle East, 1954
Chapter 2: Wild Rhetoric and Real Estate: Escalation, 1954-1956
Chapter 3: French Steel, British Will: Planning the Suez War, July-October 1956
Chapter 4: A Collusion Course: An Unlikely Alliance, October 1956
Chapter 5: Flying Cutters and the Paratrooper Gambit: Opening Moves, October 28-30, 1956
Chapter 6: Success and Fiasco at Abu-Ageila: October 30-November 2, 1956
Chapter 7: Exodus in Reverse: Israel Takes Sinai, October 31-November 5, 1956
Chapter 8: The Peacekeeping Attack: October 31-November 5, 1956
Chapter 9: Hot and Cold Wars: The Allied Invasion and the Aftermath, November 5, 1956-March 6, 1957
Epilogue: The Legacy of Suez
A real gem. The most recent, as well as much the best, history of the 1956 Suez Campaign ever written.— Martin van Creveld, Hebrew University
The story of the Suez War has been told many times, by the principals and by historians. But Yagil Henkin’s account stands out. He has finally given the military moves their full due alongside the more famous diplomatic maneuvering. But this is not only military history. Henkin presents events from every possible vantage point—Israeli, British, French, Egyptian, and American—and he integrates this into a seamless narrative, distinguished by its easy readability. No serious shelf on the 1956 war, however full, can do without Yagil Henkin’s indispensable work.
— Martin Kramer, President, Shalem College
The author of this book has written a very readable and thorough narrative. . . . Henkin is at his best describing the military moves during the conflict, but he is at ease unraveling the tangled web of multilateral interests and actions. . . Ultimately, the author does a nice job of outlining the overall lack of Israeli readiness for war and demonstrates well how the Western powers brought Israel into the conflict. Henkin's book is a good regional military and diplomatic history that properly situates the conflict and helps dispel some long-held misconceptions about the Arab-Israeli crisis.
— Historian
Despite the importance of the Suez conflict, no comprehensive military history study of this magnitude has ever been published. This book contributes a methodical military review, along with a thorough description of the battles, wrapped in a description of an additional extensive layer of the various diplomatic and political circles. The book describes the diplomatic thinking and the military execution of each of the participating parties – Egypt, Israel, France and Britain, and even the USSR and the USA. The book does not confine itself to a description of the war but delves into its results in the diplomatic layers as well as in the military strategic and even tactical layers.— Israel Book Review
A real gem. The most recent, as well as much the best, history of the 1956 Suez Campaign ever written.— Martin van Creveld, Hebrew University
The story of the Suez War has been told many times, by the principals and by historians. But Yagil Henkin’s account stands out. He has finally given the military moves their full due alongside the more famous diplomatic maneuvering. But this is not only military history. Henkin presents events from every possible vantage point—Israeli, British, French, Egyptian, and American—and he integrates this into a seamless narrative, distinguished by its easy readability. No serious shelf on the 1956 war, however full, can do without Yagil Henkin’s indispensable work.— Martin Kramer, President, Shalem College