SIMON DUNSTAN

En mayo de 1967, el presidente egipcio Gamal Abdel Nasser expulsó a las fuerzas de interposición de Naciones Unidas, estacionadas en la franja de Gaza y el Sinaí desde 1957, y concentró un gran número de tropas en la frontera con Israel, a la vez que cerraba el estrecho de Tiran para bloquear el puerto israeli de Eilat, movimientos que tenian visos de preparativos de guerra. A principios de junio, Israel tomo la decision de actuar y lanzo un espectacular ataque aereo preventivo, que destruyo la aviacion egipcia. Con el control del cielo asegurado, las columnas acorazadas de Israel avanzaron hacia el Sinai y la franja de Gaza, y empujaron a los egipcios hasta el canal de Suez en tan solo cinco dias. Esta es la historia de la campaña del Sinai, una de las operaciones mas audaces y victoriosas de la historia militar moderna.

Adolf Hitler ¿murió pacíficamente en 1962, en un pequeño valle de la Argentina? Existen numerosos testimonio y evidencias que sugieren que la fuga de Hitler a la Argentina existió realmente y fue un exito. Basado en años de estudios, los autores sostienen que la Operacion Feuerland fue meticulosamente planeada por los nazis desde 1943.

At the outbreak of World War II, Fort Eben Emael in Belgium was the strongest fortress in the world, and it lay exactly across the German invasion route of Belgium and France. The fort's elimination was essential for the success of Hitler's invasion of the West. Deemed impregnable to conventional attack, Hitler himself suggested the means for its capture with the first glider-borne assault in military history. On 10 May 1940, ten gliders carrying just 77 paratroopers landed on top of the fort. Using top-secret hollow-charge weapons for the first time in warfare, the assault pioneers of Sturmgruppe Granit subdued Fort Eben Emael within just 30 minutes, and the fortress surrendered within 30 hours. It remains one of the greatest raids in the annals of Special Forces.

At 1345hrs on 6 October 1973, Israeli spotters in the observation post atop Mount Hermon saw Syrian gunners below them removing the camouflage nets from their guns. Ten minutes later shells began to rain down on Israeli positions all along the Golan Heights The Yom Kippur War had begun. The shock Syrian attack caught the Israelis by surprise and by the afternoon of 7 October a Syrian brigade was less than 10km from the Sea of Galilee. Simon Dunstan describes in detail how amid desperate and bitter fighting the Israeli forces managed to turn the tide on the Golan Heights.

Israels victory in the 1967 Six Day War sowed the seeds of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. At 1400hrs on 6 October 1973 the Egyptian army launched an assault crossing of the Suez Canal. The carefully co-ordinated attack achieved complete tactical surprise. The sand embankments of the Israeli Bar-Lev Line were breached and an Israeli counterattack thrown back with heavy losses. In the second of his two-volume analysis of the Yom Kippur War, Simon Dunstan details the fighting in the Sinai, culminating in Operation Gazelle, the Israeli counterattack across the Suez Canal. Although defeated militarily Egypt did ultimately succeed in forcing the Israelis back to the negotiating table.