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Abraham Rabinovich, who reported the conflict for the Jerusalem Post, transports us into the midst of the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
Hw begins his narrative with Israel convincing herself there will be no war, while Egypt and Syria plot the two-front offensive.
On Yom Kippur, Saturday, October 6, 1973,the Arab armies poured across the Bar-Lev Line in the Sinai, and through the Golan defenses.
The Israeli Air Force could not stop them.
On the Golan, Syria sent 1,460 tanks against Israel’s 177, and 115 artillery batteries against Israel’s 11.
For the first time, footsoldiers wielding anti-tank weapons stopped tank charges, while surface-to-air missiles protected troops from air attack
Abraham Rabinovich takes readers into the inner sanctums of military and political decision making, allows us to witness the turnaround that had the Syrians on the run by the following Wednesday, and the counterattack across the Suez Canal that, once begun, took international intervention to halt.
Using extensive interviews with both participants and observers, and with access to recently declassified materials, he shows that the drama of the war lay not only in the battles, but also in the apocalyptic visions it triggered in Israel, the hopes and fears it inspired in the Arab world, the heated conflicts on both sides about the conduct of the war, and the concurrent American face-off with the Soviets in Washington, Mockba, and the Mediterranean.
The book is a comprehensive account of one of the pivotal conflicts of the twentieth century.