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Blood and Sand

By: Alex Von Tunzelmann
Narrated by: Lisa Coleman
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Blood and Sand tells this story hour by hour, with a fascinating cast of characters including Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anthony Eden, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Nikita Khrushchev, Christian Pineau, Imre Nagy and David Ben-Gurion.

It is a tale of conspiracy and revolutions, spies and terrorists, kidnappings and assassination plots, the fall of the British Empire and the rise of American hegemony.

Blood and Sand is essential to our understanding of the modern Middle East and resonates powerfully with the problems of oil control, religious fundamentalism and international unity that face the world today.

©2016 Alex von Tunzelmann (P)2016 Audible Ltd. 20th Century Modern Middle East Imperialism Soviet Union Military Russia War Iran Royalty Self-Determination Middle Ages Dwight Eisenhower Winston Churchill Socialism Africa Imperial Japan British Empire Interwar Period

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