John N. Westwood Bücher

Book by Westwood, J. N

Battle of Britain, Pearl Harbor, Midway, D-Day, Battle of the Bulge, Okinawa

Accounts of the warships and naval operations of WWII.

Written by a highly experienced military author and fully updated to include Operation Iraqi Freedom, The History of the War in the Middle East is an important and fascinating overview of the persistent and dangerous unrest in the region since the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. Contents: Israel's first war -- Uneasy truce -- Suez and Sinai 1956 -- Regrouping and rearmament -- The six day war -- Confrontation and attrition -- The October war 1973 -- Crises in the Lebanon -- Israel in difficulty -- The first Gulf war -- The second Gulf War -- New kinds of conflict.