32) Blood and Sand: Suez, Hungary and the Crisis that Shook the World by Alex von Tunzelmann a day by day account of the Suez Canal crisis and the concurrent revolution in Hungary in 1956. This reads like a novel so if you don’t really read non-fiction then this is a good one for you. I knew a little about the Suez blockade, but this went into full detail of what happened and so I learnt a lot about more about what happened. It also goes into detail about the Soviet crush of the revolution in Hungary that happened at the same time.


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Helen Keller