In a move that would forever alter the map of the Middle East, Israel captured the West Bank, Golan Heights, Gaza Strip, and Sinai Peninsula in 1967's brief, but pivotal, Six Day War. Cursed Victory is the first complete history of the war's troubled aftermath--a military occupa…
In a move that would forever alter the map of the Middle East, Israel captured the West Bank, Golan Heights, Gaza Strip, and Sinai Peninsula in 1967's brief, but pivotal, Six Day War. Cursed Victory is the first complete history of the war's troubled aftermath--a military occupa…
"In a move that would forever alter the map of the Middle East, Israel captured the West Bank, Golan Heights, Gaza Strip, and Sinai Peninsula in 1967's brief but pivotal Six Day War. Cursed Victory is the first complete history of the war's troubled aftermath--a military occupat…
"During the 1967 Six-Day War ... Israel seized the strategically critical Golan Heights, routing the whole Syrian Army in little more than a single day. Yet when the Yom Kippur War broke out in 1973 the Israeli military found itself in immediate danger of being overwhelmed, suff…
The Yom Kippur War 1973
by Gerrard, Howard, Dunstan, Simon
fromOsprey military campaign series
The 1973 Yom Kippur War rewrote the textbook on the tactics of modern armored warfare. Unlike the previous major Arab-Israeli war of 1967, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) faced an enemy that had invested heavily in modern Soviet weapon systems and tactics. Using detailed colour…