This is the surprisingly readable account of the Arab/Israeli conflicts starting from Israel's war for independence in 1948 and going up to the conflicts involving Lebanon. Unfortunately, I couldn't find the latest version & so had to read the one from 1983. But still it was very informative and interesting if you want to understand better what is going on in the Middle East. It goes into quite a bit of detail in descriptions of weapons, tactics, maneuvers and has lots of maps to illustrate the action. It does more than just describe battles, it goes into the motives and gives a lot of insight into the strategies and purposes of the different parties in the conflicts.
If you can, get the latest version by Chaim Herzog & Shlomo Gazit which was published in 2005, I think. But even if you can't find the latest version, the 1983 version is very much worth reading.
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