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ELUSIVE VICTORY THE ARABISRAELI WARS, 19471974 Colonel Trevor N. Dupuy U.S. ARMY, RET. HARPER & ROW, PUBLISHERS N E W Y O R K , H A G E R S T O W N , S A N F R A N C I S C O , L O N D O N

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Page 1: ELUSIVE VICTORY - Stanford Universityweb.stanford.edu/.../uploads/3387-1978-Dupuy-a-PWJ.pdfDupuy, Trevor Nevitt, date Elusive victory. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Israel—History,

ELUSIVE VICTORY

THE ARAB-­ISRAELI WARS, 1947-­1974

Colonel Trevor N. Dupuy U.S. A R M Y , R E T .

H A R P E R & R O W , P U B L I S H E R S N E W Y O R K , H A G E R S T O W N , S A N F R A N C I S C O , L O N D O N

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Photo Credits: Egyptian Armed Forces (Egypt); Israel Government Press Office (Israel); Jordan Army (Jordan); Syrian Ministry of Defense (Syria); Nachum Gutman, distributor Keystone Press Agency (Gutman); Keystone Press Agency (Keystone); Major George Mayes, Royal Australian Army (Mayes); Courtesy of Fouad Tahboub (Tahboub); Courtesy of Shmuel Gonen (Gonen); Courtesy of James Loop (Loop); Col. T.N. Dupuy (Dupuy)

E L U S I V E V I C T O R Y : T H E A R A B -­ I S R A E L I W A R S , 1947-­1974. Copyright © 1978 by Trevor N. Dupuy. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information address Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 10 East 53rd Street, New York, N.Y. 10022. Published simultaneously in Canada by Fitzhenry & Whiteside Limited, Toronto. F I R S T E D I T I O N

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Dupuy, Trevor Nevitt, date Elusive victory. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Israel—History, Military. 2. Arab countries—

History, Military. 3. Jewish-­Arab relations—1949-­I. Title. DS119.2.D86 956'.04 78-­2119 ISBN 0-­06-­011112-­7

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