01: Betrayal | Suez: A Very British Crisis

Duration: 59'09''

Synopsis

Archive material, interviews, and dramatisations provide an insight into to the Suez crisis of 1956; the Egyptian uprising that brought Gamal Abdul Nasser to power and marked the end of British Empire.

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