Temple Micah Book Club

Kaufman, Uri. Eighteen Days in October: the Yom Kippur War and how it created the modern Middle East. 400 pages. Published: 2023.

Leader:  Livia Bardin 

DC Library: 
Book – 3 available of 5 copies5 copies 
No electronic copies listed

MC Library: 
Book – 1 of 9 copies available
all electronic copies have 19 people on waitlist

From the perspective of a half century, the War can be seen as a pivotal victory for Israel. After nearly being routed, the Israeli Defense Force clawed its way back to threaten Cairo and Damascus. In the war’s aftermath both sides had to accept unwelcome truths: Israel could no longer take military superiority for granted―but the Arabs could no longer hope to wipe Israel off the map. A straight line leads from the battlefields of 1973 to the Camp David Accords of 1978 and all the treaties since. Like Michael Oren’s Six Days of War, this is the definitive account of a critical moment in history.

 

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