Yom Kippur : no peace, no war : October 1973 / Peter Baxter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baxter, Peter, 1962- author.

Series:

Cold War 1945-1991.

Cold War 1945-1991

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Israel-Arab War, 1973.

Physical Description:

128 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Military, 2017.

Summary:

When the world held its breath... It is 25 years since the end of the Cold War, now a generation old. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944 - long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europe - with the brutal Greek Civil War. The battle lines are no longer drawn, but they linger on, unwittingly or not, in conflict zones such as Iraq, Somalia and Ukraine. In an era of mass-produced AK-47s and ICBMs, one such flashpoint was the Middle East. On the afternoon of 6 October 1973, the colossus of the Israeli Defence Forces was awakened by a wave of airstrikes, followed by an artillery bombardment along the Suez Canal that preceded a meticulously planned Egyptian invasion of the Israeli-held Sinai. Simultaneously, a massive Syrian armoured assault bore down on Israeli positions on the Golan Heights. The day was Yom Kippur, the most holy day on the Jewish religious calendar, and the commencement of a war that would bring the young state of Israel to the very brink of defeat. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The Holy Land 10

2 No Peace, No War 14

3 Fortress Israel 23

4 The Egyptian Strategy 30

5 The New Arab Armies 38

6 The Totality of the Tank 50

7 War 60

8 The Politics of War, and the War of Politics 84

9 The Turning of the Tide 97

10 Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory 108

11 War, the Instrument of Politics 119.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 128).

ISBN:

9781526707901

152670790X

OCLC:

972772791

Publisher Number:

99973633669