At the decisive point in the Sinai : generalship in the Yom Kippur War /
The Yom Kippur War pitted Israel against Syria in the north and Egypt in the south in October 1973. Caught by surprise and surrounded by enemies, Israel relied on the flexibility and creative thinking of its senior field commanders. After Israeli forces halted the Egyptian troops on the Sinai Penins...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Autores principales: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Hebrew |
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Lexington, Kentucky :
The University Press of Kentucky,
[2017]
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Colección: | Foreign military studies (Lexington, Ky.)
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The order and the division : from call-up to assembly
- The IDF's "day of infamy"
- The twice-blessed day
- On the defensive, October 10-14
- The Egyptian attack, October 14
- The crossing battle, part 1 : preliminaries
- The crossing battle, part 2 : the night of October 15-16
- The crossing battle, part 3 : October 16 and the night of October 16-17
- The crossing battle, part 4 : from the morning of October 17 to the night of October 17-18
- Eight days : October 18-25, 1973
- "Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof" (eccles. 7:8)
- Appendix A. Main secondary senior commanders and staff officers
- Appendix B. The bridgehead compound
- Appendix C. Biographical and career highlights.