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Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
On October 6, 1973-Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar-the Arab world launched a bold and ingeniously conceived surprise attack against Israel. After three days of intense, bloody combat, an unprepared Israel was fighting for survival, while the Arabs, with massive forces closing in on the Jewish heartland, were poised to redeem the honor lost in three previous wars. Based on declassified Israeli government documents and revealing interviews...
8) Golda
Publisher
Decal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"During the Yom Kippur War in 1973, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir must navigate overwhelming odds, a skeptical cabinet, and a complex relationship with U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger as millions of lives hang in the balance"--
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press/E. Friede
Pub. Date
[1979]
Language
English
Description
An Israeli couple's emotional struggle in the early days of the Yom Kippur War Amalia and Daniel find their lives thrown into utter chaos when the Yom Kippur War breaks out in October 1973. Amalia volunteers in the burn ward of a military hospital, where she witnesses the carnage firsthand. A badly injured, unidentified solider captures her attention, and she fights to keep him alive as her husband, an undercover intelligence officer, pursues his...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"October 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, a conflict that shaped the modern Middle East. The War was a trauma for Israel, a dangerous superpower showdown, and, following the oil embargo, a pivotal reordering of the global economic order. The Jewish State came shockingly close to defeat. A panicky cabinet meeting debated the use of nuclear weapons. After the war, Prime Minister Golda Meir resigned in disgrace, and a 9/11-style...
12) Kippur
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
עברית
Description
Film takes place in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War in which Egypt and Syria launched attacks in Sinai and the Golan Heights. We are led on a day that begins with quiet city streets, but ends with death, destruction and devastation of both body and mind.
13) Refuge
Author
Publisher
Jewish Publication Society
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
In the surprising world that Sami Michael reveals, Shula, an Ashkenazic Jew, is the center of a web of brilliantly drawn characters: Israeli Arabs, Palestinian refugees, "black Jews," and "white Jews." Swirling in and out of Shula's story are poignantly drawn minor players - an Arab/Israeli couple, their ever-more-militant son, a seductive Arab poet, and political outsiders in a fragile society at war. Sami Michael was born in Baghdad in 1926, fled...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
It's usually called the Yom Kippur War. Or, sometimes the October War. The players that surround it are familiar: Sadat and Mubarak, Meir and Sharon, Nixon and Kissinger, Brezhnev and Dobyrnin. 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. And, a war that eventually brought peace. But, a peace fraught with...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An award-winning journalist and author presents this little-known story of Leonard Cohen's concert tour during the Yom Kippur War where he met men and women at the worst moment of their lives, which forever changed him and led to one of the best albums of his career."--
Author
Publisher
Harper an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The first English-language book to tell the sensational story of Ashraf Marwan, a top Egyptian official who spied for the Mossad and almost singlehandedly saved Israel from defeat in the Yom Kippur War. The Angel is a gripping feat of reportage that blows open the Mossad and reveals the shocking truth behind Marwan's mysterious death." --
