Two o'clock war : the 1973 Yom Kippur conflict and the airlift that saved Israel /
In this spellbinding account of the 1973 Yom Kippur conflict and the airlift that saved Israel, Boyne gives a minute-by-minute account of that fateful October when Israel was almost lost, and two superpowers stared down the barrel of a nuclear gun. photo insert
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Thomas Dunne Books,
2002
New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2002 New York : 2002 |
| Edition: | 1st ed |
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| Summary: | In this spellbinding account of the 1973 Yom Kippur conflict and the airlift that saved Israel, Boyne gives a minute-by-minute account of that fateful October when Israel was almost lost, and two superpowers stared down the barrel of a nuclear gun. photo insert "It's usually called the Yom Kippur War. Or sometimes the October War. The players who surround it are familiar: Sadat and Mubarak, Meir and Sharon, Nixon and Kissinger, Brezhnev and Dobrynin. 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." "It was 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 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."--BOOK JACKET |
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| Item Description: | This WorldCat-derived record is shareable under Open Data Commons ODC-BY, with attribution to OCLC |
| Physical Description: | xvi, 334 p. : ill. ; 24 cm xvi, 334 p. : ill. ; 25 cm xvi, 334 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm xvi, 334 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm xvi, 334 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., 1 map ; 25 cm xvi, 334 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm xvi, 334 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-323) and index Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-323) and index Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-323) and index Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0312273037 |