1.

Record Nr.

UNIBAS000006142

Autore

Walpole, Hugh <1884-1941>

Titolo

John Cornelius : his life and adventures / by Hugh Walpole

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Garden City (N.Y.) : Doubleday, Doran, 1937

Descrizione fisica

XIV, 425 p. ; 20 cm.

Disciplina

823.912

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451370603321

Autore

Ginor Isabella

Titolo

Foxbats over Dimona [[electronic resource] ] : the Soviets' nuclear gamble in the Six-Day War / / Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2007

ISBN

0-300-13504-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RemezGideon <1946->

Disciplina

956.04/6

Soggetti

Israel-Arab War, 1967 - Diplomatic history

Israel-Arab War, 1967 - Causes

Electronic books.

Soviet Union Foreign relations Israel

Israel Foreign relations Soviet Union

Soviet Union Foreign relations Arab countries

Arab countries Foreign relations Soviet Union

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-273) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Maps -- 1.



Historiography as Investigative Journalism -- 2. Threat or Bluster -- 3. Antecedents and Motivations -- 4. The Nuclear Context -- 5. The Spymaster and the Communist -- 6. A Nuclear Umbrella for Egypt -- 7. Converging Timelines -- 8. The "Conqueror" and "Victor" Plans -- 9. The Naval and Aerial Buildup -- 10. Mid-May -- 11. Escalation and Denial -- 12. The Badran Talks -- 13. Foxbats over Dimona -- 14. Poised for a Desant -- 15. Un-Finnished Business -- 16. Debates, Delays, and Ditherings -- 17. The Liberty Incident -- 18. Offense Becomes Deterrence -- 19. Aftermath -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez's groundbreaking history of the Six-Day War in 1967 radically changes our understanding of that conflict, casting it as a crucial arena of Cold War intrigue that has shaped the Middle East to this day. The authors, award-winning Israeli journalists and historians, have investigated newly available documents and testimonies from the former Soviet Union, cross-checked them against Israeli and Western sources, and arrived at fresh and startling conclusions. Contrary to previous interpretations, Ginor and Remez's book shows that the Six-Day War was the result of a joint Soviet-Arab gambit to provoke Israel into a preemptive attack. The authors reveal how the Soviets received a secret Israeli message indicating that Israel, despite its official ambiguity, was about to acquire nuclear weapons. Determined to destroy Israel's nuclear program before it could produce an atomic bomb, the Soviets then began preparing for war--well before Moscow accused Israel of offensive intent, the overt trigger of the crisis. Ginor and Remez's startling account details how the Soviet-Arab onslaught was to be unleashed once Israel had been drawn into action and was branded as the aggressor. The Soviets had submarine-based nuclear missiles poised for use against Israel in case it already possessed and tried to use an atomic device, and the USSR prepared and actually began a marine landing on Israel's shores backed by strategic bombers and fighter squadrons. They sent their most advanced, still-secret aircraft, the MiG-25 Foxbat, on provocative sorties over Israel's Dimona nuclear complex to prepare the planned attack on it, and to scare Israel into making the first strike. It was only the unpredicted devastation of Israel's response that narrowly thwarted the Soviet design.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910698057403321

Titolo

Oil, oligarchs, and opportunity [[electronic resource] ] : energy from Central Asia to Europe : hearing before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, June 12, 2008

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington : , : U.S. G.P.O., , 2008

Descrizione fisica

iii, 48 pages : digital, PDF file

Collana

S. hrg. ; ; 110-668

Soggetti

Energy policy - Russia (Federation)

Petroleum pipelines - Asia, Central

Natural gas pipelines - Asia, Central

Petroleum pipelines - Europe

Natural gas pipelines - Europe

Geopolitics - Russia (Federation)

Caspian Sea Region Strategic aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on Feb. 12, 2009).