Product Description
As new condition blue linen boards with silver spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket.
Includes List of Other Books by Walter J.
Boyne; Author Dedication; Foreword; Introduction: The War Begins; Epilogue; Appendix: Born in Battle; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography and Index.
Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographic plates.
"Two O'Clock, The Afternoon Of October 6, 1973.
Yom Kippur.
The holiest day of the Jewish calendar.
A blinding shower of high explosives rains down on a collection of concrete bunkers and observation posts sunk in the Sinai sand.
Minutes later, six hundred Egyptian tanks roll onto pontoon bridges to cross the Suez Canal while one hundred Syrian MiGs and Sukhoi bombers scream across the skies above the Golan Heights.
The Arab forces have caught Israel completey by surprise and have her burning at both ends.
For the first time, leaders in Tel Aviv consider a nuclear strike as a possible retaliation.
The next two weeks will determine the future of the Middle East and in the process bring the U.
S.
and the Soviet Union to the threshold of nuclear war.
The Two O'Clock War is a fast-paced, minute-by-minute account of that fateful October when Israel was almost lost, a monumental American airlift saved her, and two superpowers stared down the barrel of the nuclear gun.
" - from the rear outer jacket.
"Walter Boyne has produced a riveting account of the '73 Yom Kippur War and an expert analysis of the decisive role played by the American airlift.
A great read about one of the pivotal conflicts of the late twentieth century.
" - Frederick Smith, Chairman and CEO of FedEx.
"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 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.
The United States, after much vacillation, finally elected to help Israel, beginning a tremendous airlift (code named Operation Nickel Grass) that incurred the wrath of the Arab states and their sponsor, the Soviet Union.
Fortunately, the airlift came just in time for Israeli.
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