Elusive Victory: The Arab-Israeli Wars, 1947-1974 by the late Trevor N. Dupuy, a retired US Army colonel turned military historian and former professor at Harvard University, is a topical overview of mid-20th century Middle East history and politics, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher Endeavour Press.
This was originally published in 1978 by Harper & Row.
This in-depth overview covers five of the various wars between Israel and its neighbours Egypt, Jordan, and Syria during the mid-20th century, attempting to give a fact-based, balanced view of the underlying conflicts from both sides as well as outsider perspectives and dispelling then-common myths (at the time of writing, this was also a topical current affairs book in the wake of the 1973 Yom Kippur War), including political analyses and drawing upon personal interviews with various parties involved.
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