Rabu, 12 April 2017

You Command: Battle on Golan Heights, 1973

At 2 p.m. on October 6, 1973, during the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, Israel’s neighboring Arab states of Egypt and Syria launched a powerful, two-front surprise attack, targeting the Sinai in the south and the  Golan Heights in the north. As both assaults proceeded during the opening hours of the Yom Kippur War, …

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