The 1956 Suez Crisis came to a head on 5/6th November, when British and French paratroopers dropped onto targets around the Egyptian cities of Port Said and Port Fuad, at the mouth of the Suez Canal. Amphibious landings followed the next morning. But the two colonial powers, secretly working with Israel to destroy President Nasser’s government, quickly found themselves diplomatically isolated. Find out what happened next, and the deep historical background to the Suez Crisis, in our two-part doc