The October War

Despite the publication of many books about the October 1973 War between the Arabs and Israel, there are still many hidden facts that no one has addressed. Other facts have been distorted, sometimes out of ignorance, sometimes deliberately, to conceal these facts. Among the topics that remain unclear are the following questions: 1. Why did the Egyptian forces not expand their offensive eastward after successfully crossing the Suez Canal, and why did they not seize the straits in Sinai? 2. Was it truly within the General Command of the Egyptian Armed Forces’ vision that the enemy would penetrate the Deversoir area in particular, and that it had prepared the necessary plan to repel this penetration if it occurred? If this was true, why did the Egyptians not eliminate this penetration immediately after it occurred? 3. How did the enemy penetration in the Deversoir area develop day by day, and how were the plans drawn up by the military personnel overruled by the President of the Republic and the Minister of War? 4. Who was responsible for the siege of the Third Army? Was it the military commanders or the political leaders? 5- How did the siege of the Third Army affect the political and military outcomes of the war, not only for Egypt, but for the entire Arab world? Lieutenant General Saad Eddin El Shazly answers these questions. In these memoirs, El Shazly reveals the truth, responding to the nation’s astonishment when the army achieved the miracle of crossing the canal and destroying the impregnable Bar Lev Line. But he ordered a halt at the height of victory… He ordered the text to be abstained from and the Sinai to be liberated. He ordered awaiting the Israeli counterattack to open the famous breach. In these memoirs, Lieutenant General El Shazly declares for the first time that the breach was not a military one, but a political one opened by Sadat for America to pass through, and for Sadat and Carter to pass through. The great nationalist defeat was achieved by Egypt’s surrender to the Israeli enemy, whom Sadat had turned into an ally…
In his bold memoirs, Saad Eddin El Shazly records for the Arabs and for history more than the testimony of a combat commander. Victory lay before his feet and those of the Egyptian soldiers on the bare sands of Sinai, without them being allowed to pick it up. It chronicles the tragic divorce between the heroism of the soldier and the betrayal of the political decision. It tells the reader how the blood of thousands of martyrs who sacrificed their lives to liberate their homeland was squandered, and how Sadat exploited their blood to become an equal partner with the Israeli enemy in the club of American special missions.