The War of Atonement, October, 1973
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1975. First American Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. viii, [4], 300 pages. Illustrations. Maps. Index. Some soiling to edges. DJ somewhat worn and small edge tears/chips. Major-General Chaim Herzog (17 September 1918 – 17 April 1997) was an Israeli politician, general, lawyer and author who served as the sixth President of Israel between 1983 and 1993. He immigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1935 and served in the Haganah Jewish paramilitary group during the 1936–39 Arab revolt. As an officer in the British Army during World War II, he was called "Vivian" the direct English translation of "Chaim" - because his first commanding officer would not say "Chaim." He returned to Palestine after the war and, following the end of the British Mandate and Israel's Declaration of Independence in 1948, operated in the battles for Latrun during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. The author was an Israeli military analyst and formerly the head of Israeli military intelligence. He retired from the Israel Defence Forces in 1962. After wards, Herzog practiced law. In 1972 he was a co-founder of Herzog, Fox & Ne'eman. Between 1975 and 1978 he served as Israel's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, in which capacity he repudiated UN General Assembly Resolution 3379—the "Zionism is Racism" resolution—and symbolically tore it up before the assembly. Herzog entered politics in the 1981 elections, winning a Knesset seat. Two years later, in March 1983, he was elected President. He served for two five-year terms before retiring in 1993. In this book, he analyzes the military aspects of the Yom Kippur War and its influence on political trends. More