The Two O'Clock War
Subtitle: The 1973 Yom Kippur Conflict and the Airlift That Saved Israel
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Published: September 14, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780312273033
Subjects: Military - Other; Middle East - General; History: World; History; History - Military / War; United States; Military relations; Military - Aviation; History / Military / Aviation; Foreign relations; Israel; Israel-Arab War, 1973
First sentence: THE WAR THAT BLAZED forth on October 6, 1973, would grow swiftly from what looked initially like a minor border skirmish.
Description: "It's usually called the Yom Kippur War. Or sometimes the October War. The players who surround it are familiar: Sadat and Mubarak, Meir and Sharon, Nixon and Kissinger, Brezhnev and Dobrynin. It was a war that brought Arab and Jew into vicious conflict, a war in which Israel almost unleashed her nuclear arsenal and set two superpowers on a treacherous course of nuclear escalation.".

"It was a war that eventually brought peace, but a peace fraught with delicate tensions, disputed borders, and a legacy of further bloodshed." "The Two O'Clock War is a chronicle of the international chess game that was played out in October 1973. It is a story of diplomacy and military might that accounts for many of the dilemmas faced in the present-day Middle East."--BOOK JACKET.