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Title: Britain, Israel, and the United States, 1955-1958: Beyond Suez by Orna Almog, Donald Cameron Watt ISBN: 0-7146-5246-6 Publisher: Frank Cass & Co Pub. Date: March, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $87.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)

Rating: 4
Summary: Sometimes academic books can be very juicy and entertaining
Comment: The US should be excluded from the title of this book, as Washington plays no larger a part in the fabric of this delicious story as, say, Paris or Cairo. The book focuses on Anglo-Israeli relations before and after the 1956 Suez War, a topic that is fascinating to me as a dual British-Israeli citizen, and particularly relevant now in 2003, as the historic parallels are obvious.

But what gives the book a more general interest, which it sadly won't get because of its academic title and manner of publishing, is its peppering with arch comments by British ambassadors in their dispatches home from Israel. Nobody does this like the English, and there is surely no more perfect topic than the Jews and their stubborn irritating little state. These dispatches provide insight into Israel, obviously, but so much more into the English themselves!

In summary, just as a solid and well-crafted documentary will entertain you much more than a junky whizz-bang movie, so this plainly-written treatise will quietly give you lasting pleasure and a much deeper slice of understanding of today's headlines.