Eve of destruction

Name: eve of destruction
ISBN: 9780060013998

the untold story of the Yom Kippur War

nge Howard Blum

4/5

(20 amavoti)

Ifomethi: 350 amakhasi, Hardcover
Ishicilelwe okokuqala: 2004
Abashicileli: HarperCollins
Ulimi: English

To me, the book seemed well-written in a vivid, expressive language; it provided interesting facts about the Yom Kippur War, some known to me and some not. For example, the failure of the high echelons of the Israeli intelligence to adequately interpret the information supplied by their subordinates, in this case Shabtai Brill, was interesting.

The Israeli swagger that became a regional pose following the military victories of 1948 and 1967 quickly became a limp following near defeat at the hands of Egypt and Syria in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Howard Bloom's appropriately-titled chronicle of that October surprise reads like a novel, complete with an amorous young couple whose honeymoon was rudely interrupted by the outbreak of hostilities and a mysterious double agent called 'the In-Law'.

Mr. Blum has arguably written the worst account of a war in history.

the untold story of the Yom Kippur War

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