The Two O'clock War: The 1973 Yom Kippur Conflict and the Airlift That Saved Israel

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Автор: Walter J. Boyne

Название: The Two O'clock War: The 1973 Yom Kippur Conflict and the Airlift That Saved Israel

Издательство: Thomas Dunne Books

Год: 2002

Формат: PDF

Страниц: 376

Язык: English

Размер: 43.6 MB

It's usually called the Yom Kippur War. Or sometimes the October War. The players that surround it are familiar: Sadat and Mubarak, Meir and Sharon, Nixon and Kissinger, Brezhnev and Dobyrnin. It was a war that brought Arab and Jew into vicious conflict. A war in which Israel almost unleashed her nuclear arsenal and set two superpowers on a treacherous course of nuclear escalation. And a war that eventually brought peace. But a peace fraught with delicate tensions, disputed borders, and a legacy of further bloodshed. The Two O'Clock War is a spellbinding chronicle of the international chess game that was played out in October 1973. It is a story of diplomacy and military might that accounts for many of the dilemmas faced in the present-day Middle East. This is a war that Israel never thought was possible. Surprised by the fury and excellent execution of the Arab onslaught, and perhaps more than a little complacent, Israel suddenly found itself on the point of losing a war because of a lack of ammunition, planes and tanks.