Suez Crisis Peacekeepers to police the Egyptian–Israeli border, British Prime Minister Anthony Eden resigned, Canadian Minister of External Affairs Lester Pearson won the Nobel Peace Prize, and the USSR may have been emboldened to invade Hungary. The Suez Canal was opened in 1869, after ten years of work financed by the French and Egyptian governments. The canal was operated by the Universal Company of the Suez Maritime Canal, an Egyptian-chartered company; the area surrounding the canal remained sovereign Egyptian territory and the only land-bridge between Africa and Asia. The canal instantly became strategically important, as it provided the shortest ocean link between
The Last Exile The Last Exile The Last Exile (1961) is an historical novel by Australian writer James Aldridge. The novel is set in Egypt before, during and after the Suez Crisis of 1956. A number of prominent players in the crisis, including Australian Prime Minister, Robert Menzies, and Egypt President Gamal Abdul Nasser, appear as characters in the book. A reviewer in "The Canberra Times" noted the risks of writing about so recent an event, and then worried about the length of the book: "In any fictional treatment of a controversial and still remembered incident of history, it is almost impossible for