Introduction Stumbling into War Israel's Blitzkrieg The Egyptian Phoenix A Three Year Border War "No War, No Peace" Egypt's Assault Israel's Resurgence Ascent of the Dove Conclusion Bibliography Index
Discusses how Israel's decisive military victory in the 1967 war created an albatross for the Israeli army by spawning in Israel the expectation that future conflicts would be won quickly, decisively, and with few casualties-an expectation which Anwar Sadat would exploit on Egypt's behalf.
GEORGE W. GAWRYCH is Historian on the faculty of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, a position he has held since July 1984. He taught at the University of Hawaii, the University of Kansas, and the School of International Studies at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. His publications on modern Middle East history include articles in academic journals and two short monographs published by the U.S. Army. In November 1989, he received the Turkish Studies Association's biennial prize for the best published article in Turkish Studies.
"A clear, no-nonsense account of events that shook the world.
George Gawrych's work on the 1967 and 1973 Arab-Israeli Wars will
remain standard for many years to come."-M. van Creveld History
Department The Hebrew University
"The Albatross of Decisive Victory, Dr. George Gawrych's able
account of the Yom Kippur War of 1973 adds depth, detail and new
interpretation to a well-known story. Gawrych has used new
materials on the origin and prosecution of the war (including some
previously neglected Egyptian sources) and interviewed many of the
principal actors. As a result his book contains unique insights and
fresh information on operations on the Southern Front. It will
become a standard reference for that reason alone. This is the
book's greatest strength. It outlines Sadat's deliberate analysis
of his position and dispassionatley describes the radical revision
of Egyptian strategy that followed."-Lt. General (Ret.) Don
Holder
"This careful study...contributes not merely to Middle Eastern
history but also to the general study of war...[a]n important
work..."-Foreign Affairs
?Gawrych has generated a book that serves as an inspired capstone
to his earlier efforts and includes a wealth of important
details....The conflicts analyzed within this study represent some
of the most important events in Arab-Israeli history, and Gawrych
makes valuable and unique contributions to our understanding of
these events.?-MESA Bulletin
?Gawrych...has done a masterful job of collating Arabic, Israeli,
and western sources for an interesting and insightful account of to
major wars that have altered many of our assumptions about the
fighting qualities of the peoples of the Middle East.?-Journal of
Military History
?This careful study...contributes not merely to Middle Eastern
history but also to the general study of war...[a]n important
work...?-Foreign Affairs
"Gawrych...has done a masterful job of collating Arabic, Israeli,
and western sources for an interesting and insightful account of to
major wars that have altered many of our assumptions about the
fighting qualities of the peoples of the Middle East."-Journal of
Military History
"Gawrych has generated a book that serves as an inspired capstone
to his earlier efforts and includes a wealth of important
details....The conflicts analyzed within this study represent some
of the most important events in Arab-Israeli history, and Gawrych
makes valuable and unique contributions to our understanding of
these events."-MESA Bulletin
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