The Yom Kippur War 1973 (1): The Golan Heights

The Yom Kippur War 1973 (1): The Golan Heights
ISBN-10
1846035732
ISBN-13
9781846035739
Category
History
Pages
96
Language
English
Published
2013-02-20
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Author
Simon Dunstan

Description

At 1345hrs on 6 October 1973, Israeli spotters in the observation post atop Mount Hermon saw Syrian gunners below them removing the camouflage nets from their guns. Ten minutes later shells began to rain down on Israeli positions all along the Golan Heights – The Yom Kippur War had begun. The shock Syrian attack caught the Israelis by surprise and by the afternoon of 7 October a Syrian brigade was less than 10km from the Sea of Galilee. Simon Dunstan describes in detail how amid desperate and bitter fighting the Israeli forces managed to turn the tide on the Golan Heights.

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