An edition of The Arab-Israeli Wars: Arab-Israeli Wars: War and Peace in the Middle East from the 1948 War of Independence to the Present (1982)

The Arab-Israeli wars

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An edition of The Arab-Israeli Wars: Arab-Israeli Wars: War and Peace in the Middle East from the 1948 War of Independence to the Present (1982)

The Arab-Israeli wars

war and peace in the Middle East

1st ed.

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Random House
Language
English
Pages
392

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Subjects

Israel-Arab Border Conflicts, 1949-, Military History, Arab-Israeli conflict, Lebanon Civil War, 1975-, History, Military, Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949, History, Armed conflict, Asian / Middle Eastern history: from c 1900 -, Israel, Israel - History, Military History - Modern, History - Military / War, History: World, Middle East, Middle East - General, Military - General, History / Middle East, Israel-Arab Border Conflicts (1949- ) fast (OCoLC)fst00980261, New York Times reviewed, Middle east, history

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Israel, Lebanon

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1967-1973, 1973-1993, 1993-, Civil War, 1975-

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Cover of: The Arab-Israeli wars
The Arab-Israeli wars: war and peace in the Middle East from the 1948 War of Independence to the present
2005, Vintage Books
in English - 2nd Vintage books ed., rev. and updated
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Cover of: The Arab-Israeli wars
The Arab-Israeli wars: war and peace in the Middle East from the War of Independence to Lebanon
1984, Arms and Armour
in English - [Rev. ed., expanded and updated. --
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Cover of: The Arab-Israeli wars
The Arab-Israeli wars: war and peace in the Middle East
1984, Vintage Books
in English - Rev. and updated.
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Cover of: The Arab-Israeli wars
The Arab-Israeli wars: war and peace in the Middle East
1982, Random House
Hardcover in English - 1st ed.
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Table of Contents

Prologue
Book 1 : The War of Independence, 1948-1949.
Confrontation in Palestine
To the first truce, 15 May to 11 June 1948
To the second truce, 18 July to 15 October 1948
The decision
Summary : The Israeli victory
Book 2 : The Sinai Campaign of 1956.
New regimes : the rise of Nasser's Egypt
The arena of war and the opposing forces
The war : the Mitla battle
The battle of Abu Ageila
The battle for Rafah
The battle for the Gaza Strip
The battle for the Straits of Tiran
The air and naval war
Britain, France and the United Nations
Summary : A work of art
Book 3 : The Six Day War, 1967.
Prologue
The Second Sinai Campaign
The war with Jordan
The Golan Heights
Summary : A vindication
Book 4 : The war of attrition.
Defensive rehabilitation
Offensive defence and the Bar-Lev Line
Jordan and the PLO
The liberation phase
Flying artillery
Soviets and SAMs
The cease-fire
Summary
Book 5 : The Yom Kippur War, 1973.
Prologue
The southern front
The northern front
The air and naval war
Summary : A new era
Book 6 : The war against terrorism : Entebbe
Book 7 : Operation Peace for Galilee.
Summary
Conclusion.
The Israeli military experience
The Arab military experience
The role of the superpowers
The PLO

Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. [371]-375.
Includes index.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
956/.04
Library of Congress
DS119.2 .H47 1982, DS119.2.H47 1982

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Format
Hardcover
Pagination
392 p., [32] leaves of plates :
Number of pages
392
Dimensions
24 x x centimeters

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OL4094046M
Internet Archive
arabisraeliwarsw0000herz_v3v5
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ISBN 13
9780394503790
LCCN
80005291
Library Thing
45756
Goodreads
543619

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First Sentence

"As Britain prepared to withdraw her forces in May 1948, and as the Jewish community in Palestine braced itself for the inevitable Arab onslaught, there emerged a factor that was to influence Israel's military considerations throughout the initial part of the War of independence."

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