Buy this book on-line ADAN, AVRAHAM (BREN)**: : ON THE BANKS OF THE SUEZ: An Israeli General's Personal Account of the Yom Kippur WarLONDON.ARMS & ARMOUR PRESS,1980. ISBN 0853681775.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn but price-clipped dw/dj. shelf-wear and negligible creasing to dw/dj's edges with a couple of tiny nicks/ closed tears to top edge - no other tears or loss - with spine/backstrip slightly sunned/faded.Top edge lightly dust-soiled with some minimal spotting/foxing,fore- edge less aged and generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine.Brown/tan rexine-type boards with bright,crisp,stamped white letters to spine/backstrip with Army Command tree to feps and clean,plain white rear eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,v-xii+3-479pp includes half-title+title pages,b/w map frntis, contents list,author introduction, historical note,37 chapters,7 b/w maps and 16pp b/w contemporary photographs.
The peace of the High Holiday in 1973 was shattered when the Egyptians launched their attack across the Suez Canal.The war that began on October 6 took Israel by surprise.The attempt at a counter-attack on October 8 failed.How the Israeli Defence Forces managed to recover their strength and maintain their morale so that,when the cease-fire was imposed,their forces were seventy miles from Cairo on the southern front,and twenty-five miles from Damascus on the Syrian front,is the substance of this book.General Adan commanded an armoured division on the southern front.In his words: "fate placed
me at the head of an armoured division whose course of battle began at the north of the Suez Canal on the east bank,and ended at the south of the Canal on the west bank.The chain of battles extended for nineteen days." Adan accounts for every move of these days.
Problems in command,disagreements among generals,the courage,drive and the intensity of the fog of battle are related with passion that can leave no reader uninvolved.Miltary analysts and historians will find the account of strategy,tactics and the internal workings of the IDF revealing.The non-military will find the human element overwhelming.The individuals in brigade and battalion are intimately
portrayed.This was a war in which fathers and sons fought together, and frequently the sons outranked their elders.
The logistics of moving men and equipment over the sand to the bridgeheads under enemy fire, the engineering feats involved in crossing the Suez,are matters fraught with suspense involving as they do so many individual lives,and the life of a country.This is the first personal account by an Israeli general of distinction of an extraordinary military operation.One of the battles in which Adan fought has been compared,in essence,to Hannibal's famous victory over the Roman army in 217 B.C.No compliment could be greater.
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