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- ISBN 9781846033636
- Weight: 333g
- Dimensions: 182 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 10 Oct 2009
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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A fully illustrated account of Israel's campaign against Egypt that began the Six Day War.
In May 1967, Egypt expelled the United Nations peacekeeping forces stationed in the Sinai desert and deployed its army along its border with Israel, its moves coordinated with those of Jordan and Syria. By June, Israel realized that the international community would not act, and so it launched a pre-emptive strike against the combined Arab forces. The ensuing Six Day War was a crushing defeat for the Arab world, one that tripled the area controlled by Israel and which sowed the seeds for the Yom Kippur War of 1973 and the continuing strife in the region.
Written by the author of Osprey's Yom Kippur War, this volume covers the background to the war and the campaign against the Egyptians in the Sinai Peninsula, including the initial devastating air assault that showed the world how vital air supremacy was in modern combat.
Simon Dunstan is a well-established author, film-maker and photographer in the field of military history, with many titles already published with Osprey. He specializes in armoured warfare, and has written on this subject for three decades. His books have covered many topics such as helicopter and armoured warfare in Vietnam, British main battle tanks and regimental histories. Simon lives and works in London
Peter Dennis was born in 1950. Inspired by contemporary magazines such as Look and Learn he studied illustration at Liverpool Art College. Peter has since contributed to hundreds of books, predominantly on historical subjects, including many Osprey titles. A keen wargamer and modelmaker, he is based in Nottinghamshire, UK.
