Ebook: Countdown in the Holy Land
Author: Lester Velie
- Year: 1969
- Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- pdf
On two fateful days in June 1967, the United States and the Soviet Union came perilously close to war. Over the Hot Line from Moscow the Russians threatened to intercede in the Arab Israeli conflict. Three task forces of the Sixth Fleet, including a battalion of Marines, sped east to stop them if they tried. The Russians backed away and avoided a nuclear confrontation. But today, an atomic clock ticks again in the Holy Land. for here four worlds collide. In the Cold War confrontation between the Western and Communist worlds, the Soviet Union has tried for twenty years to drive the West from the area. This would transform the Holy Land into a Soviet base for a thrust north into Europe, west into Africa, and east into India. Here, also, two Arab worlds confront each other: the pro Soviet client states of Egypt, Syria, and Iraq, and the pro Western regimes of Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, and Saudi Arabia. These have more to fear from Nasser and the Soviet Union than from Israel. Up to the very eve of the Six Day War, Nasser, supported by the USSR, labored to topple them. In Countdown in. the Holy Land, Lester Velie pieces together the absorbing story of Soviet Egyptian designs in the Holy Land, and their frustration by a brave and resourceful people who harness an ancient tradition and inspiration to the job of survival.
Download the book Countdown in the Holy Land for free or read online
Continue reading on any device:
Last viewed books
Related books
{related-news}
Comments (0)