We Are Your Soldiers: How Gamal Abdel Nasser Remade the Arab World

by Alex Rowell

Gamal Abdel Nasser, the larger-than-life Egyptian president who ruled for eighteen years between the coup d' tat he led in 1952 and his death in 1970, is best known for wresting the Suez Canal from the British and French empires and befriending such iconic revolutionaries as Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. Yet there is a darker side to Nasser's regime. He was a brutal authoritarian, whose legacy, Alex Rowell argues, lies at the heart of the violent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324021667
• ISBN13: 9781324021667
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.1"