Yom Kippur War 1973 (2)

The second instalment of Simon Dunstan''s Yom Kippur War 1973, this book charts how 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 breache...