Yom Kippur War The Epic Encounter That Transformed the Middle East

Name: Yom Kippur War The Epic Encounter That Transformed the Middle East
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ISBN: 9780805211245

ISBN-10: 0805211241

ISBN-13: 9780805211245

Edition: 2004

Authors: Abraham Rabinovich

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In this galvanizing account of the most dramatic of the Arab-Israeli hostilities, Abraham Rabinovich, who reported the conflict for the Jerusalem Post, transports us into the midst of the 1973 Yom Kippur War.Rabinovichs masterly narrative begins as Israel convinces itself there will be no war, while Egypt and Syria plot the two-front conflict. Then, on Yom Kippur, Saturday, October 6, 1973, we see Arab armies pouring across the shattered Bar-Lev Line in the Sinai and through the Golan defenses. Even the famed Israeli air force could not stop them. On the Golan alone, Syria sent 1,460 tanks against Israels 177, and 115 artillery batteries against Israels 11. And for the first time, foot…

Book details

List price: $22.50
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/4/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 656
Size: 5.28" wide x 7.95" long x 1.22" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



List of Maps


Preface


Prologue



Footprints in the Sand



The Man in the Peasant Robe



Dovecote



Badr



Illusions



Summer Lull



A Royal Visit



Sword from the Scabbard



Countdown



Yom Kippur Morning



The Crossing



The Humbling of the Tank



Mobilization



Syrian Breakthrough



Darkest at Dawn



The Fall of the Southern Golan



The Beanstalk



The Battle for Nafakh



Cut Off



Hand on the Tiller



Failed Counterattack



Bomb Damascus



Touching Bottom



Golan Counterattack



Iraqi Intervention



Powers that Be



Israel Seeks a Cease-Fire



Decision to Cross



Stouthearted Men



The Chinese Farm



The Bridges



Crossing into Africa



Breakout



Kissinger to the Fore



Cease-Fire



Suez City



Nuclear Alert



Aftermath


Notes


A Selected Bibliography


Index