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...journal is equally well done, if far more ebullient. Yaël was assigned as a combat correspondent to the armored division of celebrated General Ariel ("Arik") Sharon. She records how Sharon, outmanned and outtanked,swept out of the Negev, cracked the Egyptian main line of resistance at Um-Katef, and opened the route to the Suez Canal for Israeli armor. She has a sharp sense of color. At the village of Nahel: "The sandstorm receded, and silence took over. The horn of a burning vehicle was operating-a wan sound of alarm not to die for hours-like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Remorse & Victory | 11/17/1967 | See Source »

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