{"product_id":"the-yom-kippur-war-the-epic-encounter-that-transformed-the-middle-east","title":"The Yom Kippur War: The Epic Encounter That Transformed the Middle East","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this galvanizing account of the most dramatic of the Arab-Israeli hostilities  Abraham Rabinovich  who reported the conflict for the Jerusalem Post  transports us into the midst of the 1973 Yom Kippur War.  Rabinovichs masterly narrative begins as Israel convinces itself there will be no war  while Egypt and Syria plot the two-front conflict. Then  on Yom Kippur  Saturday  October 6  1973  we see Arab armies pouring across the shattered Bar-Lev Line in the Sinai and through the Golan defenses. Even the famed Israeli air force could not stop them. On the Golan alone  Syria sent 1 460 tanks against Israels 177  and 115 artillery batteries against Israels 11. And for the first time  footsoldiers wielding anti-tank weapons were able to stop tank charges  while surface-to-air missiles protected those troops from air attack  Rabinovich takes us into this inferno and into the inner sanctums of military and political decision making. He allows us to witness the dramatic turnaround that had the Syrians on the run by the following Wednesday and the great counterattack across the Suez Canal that  once begun  took international intervention to halt.  Using extensive interviews with both participants and observers  and with access to recently declassified materials  Rabinovich shows that the drama of the war lay not only in the battles but also in the apocalyptic visions it triggered in Israel  the hopes and fears it inspired in the Arab world  the heated conflicts on both sides about the conduct of the war  and the concurrent American face-off with the Soviets in Washington  D.C.  Moscow  and the Mediterranean. A comprehensive account of one of the pivotal conflicts of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44945948049461,"sku":"ByrdShop_0805241760","price":32.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780805241761.jpg?v=1769915951","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-yom-kippur-war-the-epic-encounter-that-transformed-the-middle-east","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}