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Prelude to Suez by Colonel Robert Hornby (Hardcover, 2010)

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In January 1952 Cairo burned in a wave of insurgency. Three months earlier, the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 1936 had been abrogated, leading to the withdrawal of all British military personnel from the city to the Canal Zone base at Suez. Colonel Robert Hornby was already committed as the press spokesman for the British Army and chose to stay in Cairo. Without diplomatic immunity and vulnerable to arrest, Hornby endeavoured to respond to the demands of the international press and squash the outrageous claims of propagandist Egyptian newspapers. He set up a secret, and highly illegal, line of communication to the garrison switchboard at Ismalia to allow journalists to subvert the censorship imposed on correspondence sent via cable and wireless, their only means of reporting to their newspapers. Hornby's non-diplomatic status led to his attempted arrest by Egyptian police, but he escaped with his family to Cyprus. He soon returned to Egypt with a Foreign Office diplomatic passport and valid Egyptian entry visa as an assistant military attache at the British Embassy in Cairo. During his years in Egypt he witnessed the abdication of King Farouk and the rise and fall of General Neguib. Hornby's close contact with the press, his friendship with Anwar Sadat, future prime minister of Egypt, and his links with both army and embassy combine to give a unique and fascinating account of the period, set against the inevitable strains of living in a volatile country with a wife and children.

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Publisher
Amberley Publishing
ISBN-13
9781848688643
eBay Product ID (ePID)
92748200

Product Key Features

Book Title
Prelude to Suez
Author
Colonel Robert Hornby
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
History
Publication Year
2010
Type
Textbook
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
160 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height
234mm
Item Width
156mm
Item Weight
502g

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Colonel Robert Hornby
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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