The Yom Kippur War - The Epic Encounter that Transformed the Middle East

The Yom Kippur War

The Epic Encounter that Transformed the Middle East

In this galvanizing account of the most dramatic of the Arab-Israeli hostilities, Abraham Rabinovitch, who reported the conflict for the Jerusalem Post, transports us into the midst of the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

Rabinovitch's 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 Israel's 177, and 115 artillery batteries against Israel's 11. And for the first time, foot soldiers wielding anti-tank weapons were able to stop tank charges, while surface-to-air missiles protected those troops from air attack.

Rabinovitch takes us into this inferno and into the inner sanctum of military and political decision making. He allows us to witness the dramatic turnaround that had the Syrians on the run by the following Wednesday and the great counterattack across the Suez Canal that, once begun, took international intervention to halt.

Using extensive interviews with both participants and observers, and with accesss to recently declassified materials, Rabinovitch 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, D.C., Moscow, and the Mediterranean. A comprehensive account of one of the pivotal conflicts of the twentieth century.

Table of Contents

List of Maps Preface Prologue		xiii xv p. 3
One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine Ten Eleven Twelve Thirteen Fourteen Fifteen Sixteen Seventeen Eighteen Nineteen Twenty Twenty-One Twenty-Two Twenty-Three Twenty-Four Twenty-Five Twenty-Six Twenty-Seven Twenty-Eight Twenty-Nine Thirty Thirty-One Thirty-Two Thirty-Three Thirty-Four Thirty-Five Thirty-Six Thirty-Seven Thirty-Eight	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	p. 5 p. 10 p. 17 p. 25 p. 31 p. 39 p. 47 p. 54 p. 65 p. 85 p. 101 p. 107 p. 127 p. 142 p. 170 p. 181 p. 188 p. 194 p. 207 p. 217 p. 235 p. 253 p. 269 p. 284 p. 307 p. 319 p. 327 p. 339 p. 348 p. 367 p. 384 p. 400 p. 417 p. 441 p. 453 p. 468 p. 478 p. 499
Notes A Selected Bibliography Index		p. 517 p. 527 p. 535

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