A review by nickfourtimes
Blood and Sand: Suez, Hungary, and Eisenhower's Campaign for Peace by Alex Von Tunzelmann

5.0

1) "On November 21, it was announced that Anthony Eden was leaving London for three weeks on the orders of his doctor. Rab Butler would fill in for him temporarily. Two days later, Eden and his wife departed for Jamaica and Goldeneye, the beachside villa owned by James Bond creator Ian Fleming. This was a public relations disaster. The austerity-bound British public generally felt that a serving prime minister ought not reward himself for orchestrating the biggest foreign policy disaster of the postwar era with an extended holiday in the Caribbean. 'Torquay and a sun-ray lamp would have been more peaceful and patriotic,' admitted Fleming’s wife, Ann."