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Suez
1956

by

Paul Gaujac

Hardcover. 4to. Charles-Lavauzelle, Paris, France. 1986. 307 pgs. Illustrated with Color / Black and White Plates. Text in French. Signed and inscribed by Paul Gaujac on the title page. First Edition/First Printing.

DJ has shelf-wear present (chip present to the crown of the DJ spine). Bound in cloth boards with gilt titles present. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's marks present to the half title page. Stamp present to the reverse of the title page. Text is free of marks. Binding tight and solid. 

The Suez operation in 1956 is largely forgotten today. It was, however, at the center of a major crisis at the crossroads of decolonization and the cold war ...

Recall the context. In Egypt, the Arab nationalist Nasser has taken power, closed the Aqaba Strait essential to the Israeli economy and has just nationalized the Suez Canal. Great Britain does not admit the fait accompli. France, engaged in the war in Algeria, also wants to put in step a Nasser who largely supports the Algerian FLN. When the Israelis, they want to restore navigation and give a lesson to the Egyptians.

All the ingredients are gathered for an agreement of the three countries on the back of Egypt. An operation is decided: the Israelis will attack in Sinai and Franco-British troops intervene to protect navigation in the Suez Canal. The operation is carried out in a somewhat chaotic way with a (too) fast advance of the Israelis in Sinai and some boondoggles in the combined operation (and complex) Franco-British.

But it was to forget that the two European countries were no longer the major players in the world. The USSR and the United States will intervene to end the military operation, the European powers will withdraw in favor of the UN, the Israelis will evacuate Sinai and the strait will be opened again ... until ... the next war ... in 1967.

Paul Gaujac and Editions Lavauzelle offers us here a sumptuous album of more than 300 pages devoted to this military operation. The geopolitical context is quickly sketched out, the details of the operations are well highlighted by the numerous illustrations: cards in b / w, photos in b / w and a notebook of color photos.

The book is well illustrated with beautiful aerial photographs of the areas of operation very useful to the wargamers interested in an operation which, if it was of short duration, was none the less complex and accomplished on the military level.

Useful for military operations, to complete other works for the geopolitical and diplomatic dimension especially for the Arab-Israeli side.

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inches cm  
folio 2º or fo 2 4 12 × 19 30.5 × 48  
quarto 4º or 4to 4 8 9½ × 12 24 × 30.5  
octavo 8º or 8vo 8 16 6 × 9 15 × 23  
duodecimo or twelvemo 12º or 12mo 12 24 5 × 7⅜ 12.5 × 19  
sextodecimo or sixteenmo 16º or 16mo 16 32 4 × 6¾ 10 × 17  
octodecimo or eighteenmo 18º or 18mo 18 36 4 × 6½ 10 × 16.5  
trigesimo-secundo or thirty-twomo 32º or 32mo 32 64 3½ × 5½ 9 × 14  
quadragesimo-octavo or forty-eightmo 48º or 48mo 48 96 2½ × 4 6.5 × 10  
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