Description
Original LIFE Magazine — November 19, 1956
Own an authentic original issue of LIFE Magazine from November 19, 1956, featuring dramatic coverage of Egypt and the battle for the Middle East during the Suez Crisis. The cover shows a wounded Egyptian soldier, reflecting LIFE’s frontline photojournalism during one of the defining international conflicts of 1956. This issue also includes a country music photo essay and additional news and cultural reporting from the period.
- Cover Subject: Egypt Battles for the Middle East — wounded Egyptian soldier
- Inside This Issue: Suez Crisis and Middle East conflict coverage, Egypt, international news, a country music photo essay, and LIFE’s reporting and photography from November 1956
- Completeness: Complete original issue
- Perfect For: Suez Crisis collectors, Middle East history enthusiasts, military-history collectors, 1950s history collectors, birthday and anniversary gifts, and vintage LIFE Magazine collectors
Original LIFE Magazines are authentic issues published between 1936 and 2000.
Pg… 38 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: How the British and French Attacked Canal?a Small War in the Shadow of a Big–Stick Threat
Pg… 46 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Split–Ticket Vote for the Historians to Explain
Pg… 56 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Lost Cause Shocks the World: Rioters Rage at Rape of Hungary
Pg… 58 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: After a Watch by Night, a Miraculous Mine Rescue
Pg… 60 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Look at the World’s Week
Pg… 65 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Celebration for Seretse: Bechuanaland Chieftain and His White Wife are Home Again as Private Citizens
Pg… 55 EDITORIALS: To the Heroes of Hungary
Pg… 55 EDITORIALS: What the Voters Said
Pg… 73 PICTORIAL ESSAYS: New Vistas of the Road: in America’s Matchless Autumn Panorama a Great Highway Program Gathers Speed
Pg… 137 PICTORIAL ESSAYS: Country Music’s Prosperity. Photographed for LIFE by Yale Joel
Pg… 89 ARTICLES: Names, Places and Pay–Offs. By Wes Santee. The Miler Whose Suspension Brought the Year’s Biggest Sports Controversy Tells of the “Brown Envelope” System
Pg… 160 ARTICLES: The Curse of Cromwell, by Sir Winston Churchill, in “A History of the English–Speaking Peoples.” Eight Pages of Color on an Ardent King’s Lovely Conquests, Court and Country Life and the Great Fire
Pg… 69 SCIENCE: The Oldest Thing Alive: Bristlecone Pines in California are 4,000 Years Old
Pg… 89 ANIMALS: Triple–Decker Doghouse for Some High–Living Afghans
Pg… 113 MOVIES: Fearful Female on the Run: “Julie” is a Terror Tale of Flight from a Fiend
Pg… 117 AVIATION: Russians Build a Better Chute
Pg… 133 AVIATION: A Navy Balloon’s Record Rise and Perilous Drop
Pg… 123 THEATER: O’Neill’s Autobiographical Play, “Long Day’s Journey Into Night,” Reaches the U.S. Stage
Pg… 151 SPORTS: Something had to Crack in Battle of Unbeaten Football Giants?Tennessee Beats Georgia Tech
Pg… 155 CLOSE–UP: The Hectic Daily Rat Race of Master Cartoonist Herblock
Pg… 187 FASHION: Men’s Shirts Don Bold and Colorful Fronts
Pg… 193 PARTY: A Stately Welcome to Society as Atlanta Debutantes Make Their Bow
Pg… 18 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of Pictures: Hurdles from on High
Pg… 30 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 196 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Miscellany: a Squirt for a Squirrel
