With the 50th anniversary of the Suez Crisis having been reached in 2006, it is appropriate to reassess the crisis in all its multifaceted complexity. The 15 chapters in this book have been selected to provide fresh perspectives on the crisis, its origins and aftermath.

Includes index.

Introduction / Simon C. Smith -- Prelude to the Suez crisis : the rise and fall of British dominance over the Suez Canal, 1869-1956 / Steve Morewood -- Eden, Churchill, and the battle of the Canal zone, 1951-54 / Michael T. Thornhill -- Britain and the Suez crisis : the Abadan dimension / Peter Beck -- Julian Amery and the Suez operation / Sue Onslow -- Who to fight in 1956, Egypt or Israel? : operation musketeer versus operation cordage / Eric Grove -- French-Israeli relations, 1950-1956 : the strategic dimension / Zach Levey -- Supporting the brave young king : the Suez crisis and Eisenhower's new approach to Jordan, 1953-1958 / Clea Bunch -- A reluctant partner of the US over Suez? : Turkey and the Suez crisis / Ayegül Sever -- The 1956 Sinai war : a watershed in the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict / David Tal -- When did Nasser expect war? : the Suez nationalization and its aftermath in Egypt / Laura M. James -- The Suez crisis at the United Nations : the effects for the foreign office and British foreign policy / Edward Johnson -- In search of "some big, imaginative plan" : the Eisenhower administration and American strategy in the Middle East after Suez / Richard V. Damms -- Telling tales out of school : Nutting, Eden, and the attempted suppression of no end of a lesson / Philip Murphy -- Post-Suez consequences : Anglo-American relations in the Middle East from Eisenhower to Nixon / Tore T. Petersen -- Suez 1956 and the moral disarmament of the British empire / A.J. Stockwell -- Conclusion / Scott Lucas.