An authority on the Suez Canal, Hugh Schonfield has written four books on the subject: "Ferdinand de Lesseps"; "Italy and Suez"; "The Suez Canal"; and "The Suez Canal in World Affairs," published in 1952. He contributes the article on the Suez in Encyclopaedia Britannica Book of the Year. A historian and biographer, Hugh Schonfield was educated at St. Paul's School and Glasgow University. Most of his published works deal with the ancient civilisations...