The Yom Kippur War 1973: Pt. 2: Sinai

Author(s): Simon Dunstan

War/Military

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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Simon Dunstan is a well-established author, film maker and photographer in the field of military history, with several titles already published with Osprey. He specialises on the subject of armoured warfare, a field on which he has been writing for two decades. His books have covered topics such as helicopter and armoured warfare in Vietnam, the Challenger main battle tank. The British Guards and armoured warfare in Korea. Simon lives and works in London; Kevin Lyles is a talented illustrator of 20th century military subjects. He has illustrated several books for Osprey over the years, and has also written titles on the US Army in Vietnam, a subject in which he has a long-standing interest. He lives and works in Hertfordshire, UK.

Origins of the Campaign; Chronology; Opposing Commanders; The Egyptian Army; The Israeli Army; Breaching the Bar Lev line; The Battle of 'Chinese Farm'; The Israeli breakout; Aftermath; Bibliography; The battlefield Today; Wargaming the Sinai; Index

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  • : 9781841762210
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • : Osprey Publishing
  • : 0.323
  • : 20 April 2003
  • : 248mm X 184mm X 7mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

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  • : Simon Dunstan
  • : Paperback
  • : Kevin Lyles
  • : 96
  • : 48 colour & 48 b&w photographs, bibliography, index