1973: The Road to War

Israeli historian Yigal Kipnis delves deep into the Israeli and American archives and reveals in this book that the big October 1973 war between Israel and its Arab neighbors could almost certainly have been avoided. Avoided, that is, if in the months preceding October 1973, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, who was facing elections, had not been so determined to block the ongoing peace negotiations with Egypt, and if US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (despite his misgivings) had not backed up her diplomatic hard line. Kipnis contradicts the conventional wisdom, arguing convincingly that it was Israeli political intransigence, not a failure of Israel's military intelligence, that set the stage for the 1973 war.

The Hebrew-language original of 1973: The Road to War made great waves when it was published in Israel.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Just World Books
Published: 10/01/2013
ISBN: 9781935982302
Pages: 350
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.78d