| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.2

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Fuochi sul canale: La crisi di Suez, gli Stati Uniti, e la ricerca di una nuova politica in Medio Oriente, 1955–1958 (Fires over the canal: The Suez crisis, the United States, and the search for a new policy in the Middle East, 1955–1958). By Daniele De Luca. (Milan: M&B, 1999. 271 pp. Paper, Lit 30,000, ISBN 88-86083-74-2.) In Italian.

In this monograph based on American, British, and Israeli archival sources, the Suez crisis appears as the turning point in U.S. postwar history from a policy of wait and see to one of full involvement in the Middle East. The first chapter traces the background of the 1956 events: the Truman administration's cooperation with Britain in the 1940s, and the mounting American discomfort with British policy as British relations with the Arab states deteriorated after 1951. The two central chapters deal with the crucial period between September 1955 and October 1956. . . .

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