2: Conspiracy | Suez: A Very British Crisis

Duration: 59'31''

Synopsis

This episode provides an insight into the way in which Eden secretly plotted with France and Israel, behind the USA's back, not only to seize back the Suez Canal but to remove Nasser.

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