Nazis on the Nile

Using official British records and CIA files released under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, Vyvyan Kinross paints a compelling portrait of a country rearming and re-equipping for the Cold War and rocket age with the help of former German Wehrmacht soldiers, missile scientists, chemical engineers, arms manufacturers and arms dealers. German Special Forces veterans trained Egypt's soldiers to fight the British in the Suez Canal Zone and the Israelis in Gaza If they had been given executive authority and battlefield command, German commanders might have changed outcomes in Egypt's favour The British detected German tactics of subversion in Egyptian foreign policy, propaganda and intelligence operations Egypt used coercive methods to persuade its Jewish population to leave after the Suez crisis of 1956