Here is a short article that discusses how his stand against two major European powers brought him huge popularity. Here is a link to Nasser’s own book about Egypt’s liberation (you can read it online). This is a link to an interesting article about a book on Nasser. This is the review of a book by a Jewish author who escaped Egypt with her family in the 1960’s. It actually sounds fascinating as the author became an award winning journalist for the Wall Street Journal.