Research Catalog

Title

The Yom Kippur War : the epic encounter that transformed the middle east/ Abraham Rabinovich.

Author

Rabinovich, Abraham.

Publication

New York : Schocken Books, c2004.

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Details

Description

xvi, 543 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., maps; 25 cm.

Summary

Examines the prelude to the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the start of hostilities, the campaigns and battlefields, the war's dramatic conclusion, and the long-term implications of the conflict on the history of the Middle East.

Subject

• Israel-Arab War, 1973

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [527]-534) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

0805241760 (hc)

LCCN

^^2003054353

OCLC

52464595

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library