A seamless, riveting narrative reminiscent of the books of Rick Atkinson or Stephen Ambrose. “Rabinovich’s (prose) is both compelling and intelligent. The Yom Kippur War is available in print and eBook formats from most major book retailers including:

A comprehensive account of one of the pivotal conflicts of the twentieth century. Relying on extensive interviews with participants and with access to 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 within the leaderships 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. He allows us to witness the dramatic turnaround that had the Syrians on the run by the following Wednesday and the Israeli counterattack across the Suez Canal that, once begun, took international intervention to halt. Rabinovich takes us into this inferno and into the inner sanctums of military and political decision making. On the Golan, Syria sent 1,460 tanks against Israel’s 180. On the Sinai front, Egyptian soldiers wielding new Soviet-made anti-tank weapons knocked out most of an Israeli armored division in 12 hours while surface-to-air missiles protected the Egyptian troops from air attack. Even the vaunted Israeli air force could not stop them. 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. His masterly narrative begins as Israel convinces itself there will be no war, while Egypt and Syria plot the two-front conflict. In this galvanizing account of the most dramatic of the Arab-Israeli conflicts, Abraham Rabinovich, who covered the fighting as a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, transports us into the midst of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Rabinovich’s book is brilliant, sweeping and insightful.” -PROF.

Beautiful, precise and sometimes poetic language…Outstanding.” -PROF.BENNY MORRIS, HA’ARETZ At both levels, it was a fascinating war. The writing is clear, compelling and precise and offers a good understanding of both the military operations and the political developments. All rights reserved.“The best general history of the Yom Kippur War. Copyright © 2022, Columbia University Press. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. The 1973–74 War brought about a major shift of power in the Middle East and ultimately led to the signing of the Camp David accords. On the Syrian front too, Israeli territorial gains made in the war were given up.Īfter the war Egyptian and Syrian diplomatic relations with the United States, broken since the 1967 war, were resumed, and clearance of the Suez Canal began. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Israel withdrew back across the Suez Canal and several miles inland from the east bank behind a UN-supervised cease-fire zone. Largely as a result of the diplomatic efforts of U.S. Israel and Egypt signed a cease-fire agreement in November, but Israeli-Syrian fighting continued until a cease-fire was negotiated in 1974. and Soviet diplomatic pressures and the efforts of the United Nations, a tenuous cease-fire was implemented by Oct. The attacks caught Israel off guard, and it was several days before the country was fully mobilized Israel then forced the Syrians and Egyptians back and, in the last hours of the war, established a salient on the west bank of the Suez Canal, but these advances were achieved at a high cost in soldiers and equipment. Iraqi forces joined the war and, in addition, Syria received some support from Jordan, Libya, and the smaller Arab states. Egyptian forces struck eastward across the Suez Canal and pushed the Israelis back, while the Syrians advanced from the north. 6, 1973, the Jewish holy day Yom Kippur, a two-pronged assault on Israel was launched. During 1973 the Arab states, believing that their complaints against Israel were going unheeded (despite the mounting use by the Arabs of threats to cut off oil supplies in an attempt to soften the pro-Israel stance of the United States), quietly prepared for war, led by Egypt's President Anwar Sadat.

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