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The Yom Kippur War 1973 (2): The Sinai

Book information

Publisher
Osprey Publishing
ISBN
9781841762210, 1841762210
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
16 MB (16287344 bytes)
Series
Campaign 126
Pages
96\97
Time added
2020-09-27 11:47:32

Description

Osprey's second title in the study of the Yom Kippur War (1973). Israel's victory in the 1967 'Six Day War' sowed the seeds of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. At 1400hrs on 6 October 1973 the Egyptian army launched an assault crossing of the Suez Canal. The carefully co-ordinated attack achieved complete tactical surprise. The sand embankments of the Israeli Bar-Lev Line were breached and an Israeli counterattack thrown back with heavy losses. In the second of his two-volume analysis of the Yom Kippur War, Simon Dunstan details the fighting in the Sinai, culminating in Operation Gazelle, the Israeli counterattack across the Suez Canal. Although defeated militarily Egypt did ultimately succeed in forcing the Israelis back to the negotiating table.

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