A mid twentieth century Prime Minister with a 19th century mindset.

44:26 - That's the most British thing I've ever fucking heard.

Just got blown into the air, leg hanging on by the tendon, and pants on fire, and he calls it an "interesting situation." I suppose he's not wrong, but good lord.

I was an 18 yr old Lance Corporal National Serviceman in 1 Para.  On day 2 we were sent to head the advance down the Canal.  I was in the forward platoon.  It was late afternoon and I sat on a bollard looking down the Canal.  There was nothing in front of me apart from desert and the canal.  No noise, no shooting, nothing.  Then we were withdrawn, put on an aircraft carrier and sent back to Cyprus.  We were told it was because we were going to drop further down the canal.  All I can say is we were up for it and did not know what was behind it all.

One of the best docs on Suez crisis, thats for sure... a gem of a series.

They were disappointed that the robbery was called off after killing all those people in Egypt and destroying their town for no good reason and no one is even feeling ashamed ! Ladies and gentlemen this is the moral code of the free world .

How could Eden have been , to quote his very own words,a man of peace and invading an independent country !
Again it,s an example of cynical politicians and a pure liar. And we,ve plenty of them still around in 2019 too.

37:51 I find it so funny how the officers believe and act like they're part of the aristocracy, haha

I think it understates Eisenhower's threats actively to dump sterling, not merely passively to refrain from supporting it.  

Eden was an excellent example of a posh, but incompetent leader.

Never heard Michael Parkinson swear before...surreal.

Dear Mohammed,  Truely great you put this up.    Slaven from Croatia

57:58 The last speaker in the video sums it up very well. Possibly because of ill health & medicines, Eden acted like an absolute idiot. Had he learned nothing from working closely with Churchill & the humiliation of the Yalta conference when Britain's diminished place in the World order had been made very clear?

i  actually watched this series , because my  father was a royal marine on hms jamaica at this time  and since his passing i,ve had an interest in his military career , he didnt speak of it much to me  tbh  ,it sickens me to think he went to war for another lying hypocrite politician ,who didnt even have the bollocks to follow through with it ...

My grandfather was among the first military engineers, first ever, he and his colleagues designed the mobile bridges to be fixed over the bitter lakes in order to allow Egyptian armed divisions besieged Port Saeed, that was not mentioned here, few from his battalion were caught and executed by Israeli forces

every american should watch this

One current infamous leader has told an average of 1 lie a day over 3 years so Eden was tame stuff by comparison.

Got to say, the actor playing Eden is brilliant. You can really feel the pain of the situation based on his "shock", illness or disappointment faces.

Thanks, Mohammed. I learned a lot from this documentary.

Great documentary, I'd of liked to of seen more behind the relations between France, Israel and the USA.

glad to see David Attenborough !!!

"You don't just walk into a country and invade it".... tell that to russia.