Abstract
The Suez crisis of 1956 marked the most serious challenge to British interests since the conclusion of the Second World War. It was characterised by a series of events shrouded in secrecy and clouded by disinformation, a foreign policy scarred by the efforts of a complicated interstate collaboration, and fatal military and diplomatic blundering which turned the crisis into a debâcle. The true purpose, effects and significance of the Suez episode remain the subject of excited academic debate, made even more spirited by the recent access to formerly confidential files and documents. David Sanders has described the Suez crisis as a traumatic but valuable experience for British foreign policy. Since the Second World War Britain had laboured under the pretension of still being a Great Power with its military commitments and diplomacy over-extended. It took the shock of the Suez crisis to break that illusion.
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