Reading it again after many years, I still have no doubt that вЂњThe Tanks of TammuzвЂќ is the best book ever about the Israel Defense Forces and the countryвЂ™s wars. Through them, Teveth documented the formation of the Israeli tank force from its beginnings to its bloody breakthroughs on the way to the Suez Canal and the slopes of Mount Hermon.ДЄn old cover of Shabtai Teveth's book. And there were all the commanders and combatants who achieved the victory in the Sinai and Golan alongside their comrades who never returned, the widows and orphans, the wounded and crippled. Shamai Kaplan, Biro the regiment commander and Nati the company commander.

Leafing through the book the heroes of my childhood reading came to life: Maj. My hand reached almost automatically for the bookstoreвЂ™s history shelf when I saw the new edition of вЂњThe Tanks of Tammuz.вЂќ I had been wondering if Shabtai TevethвЂ™s 1968 work would reappear for the Six-Day WarвЂ™s 50th anniversary, and here it was before me, an armвЂ™s length away, with Paul KorвЂ™s iconic cover in the Armored CorpsвЂ™ green and black. The officers who began the occupation fear for IsraelвЂ™s future Israel deceived the world in 1967, and paid the price for it in 1973 The truth behind Israel's desperate plan to set off a nuclear device to save itself in 1967 вЂњExposed in the Turret,вЂќ a reissuing of the 1968 book published in English as вЂThe Tanks of Tammuz,вЂ™ Kinneret Zmora-Bitan, 432 pages, 96 shekels ($27). AP / The original black and white image has been colorized

Israeli forces during the Six-Day War, 1967.

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