The Suez Crisis: When Empires Collided Over a Canal

The Suez Crisis: When Empires Collided Over a Canal in 1956

The year is 1956. The world, still reeling from the devastating Second World War, finds itself teetering on the brink of another global conflict, not over ideology this time, but over a vital strip of water. The Suez Canal, a marvel of 19th-century engineering, was more than just a shortcut between the Mediterranean and the … Read more