Nasser's Gamble : : How Intervention in Yemen Caused the Six-Day War and the Decline of Egyptian Power / / Jesse Ferris.

Nasser's Gamble draws on declassified documents from six countries and original material in Arabic, German, Hebrew, and Russian to present a new understanding of Egypt's disastrous five-year intervention in Yemen, which Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser later referred to as "my Vi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Map
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER ONE. The Road to War
  • CHAPTER TWO. The Soviet-Egyptian Intervention in Yemen
  • CHAPTER THREE. Food for “Peace” THE BREAKDOWN OF US-EGYPTIAN RELATIONS, 1962–65
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Guns for Cotton THE UNRAVELING OF SOVIET-EGYPTIAN RELATIONS, 1964–66
  • CHAPTER FIVE. On the Battlefield in Yemen—and in Egypt
  • CHAPTER SIX. The Fruitless Quest for Peace: SAUDI-EGYPTIAN NEGOTIATIONS, 1964–66
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. The Six-Day War and the End of the Intervention in Yemen
  • AFTERWORD. The Twilight of Egyptian Power
  • Bibliographical Note
  • Bibliography
  • Index