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Front Cover -- Title Page -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- A Note on Sources -- Map -- Introduction -- 1. In Israel-Fear of an American Initiative -- The Challenge of Sadat -- The Expulsion of Soviet Advisors -- The Egyptian Army Changes Strategy -- What Did Marwan Know? -- Meanwhile, in Israel -- "Let This Thing Go Away" -- Ismail Would Not Decide -- "How Am I Going to Fill Two Days with Him?" -- Philosophical Discussions -- The Public Meetings -- 2. Four Days in February -- Sunday and Monday: Kissinger's Talks with Ismail -- Tuesday, February 27, 1973, 11:42, Meeting between Kissinger and Hussein -- Tuesday, February 27, 1973, 15:30, Meeting between Kissinger and Rabin -- The "Understandings of December 1971" -- Wednesday, February 28, 1973, Morning, Meeting between Kissinger, Meir, and Rabin -- Wednesday, February 28, 1973, 19:30, Meeting between Kissinger and Rabin -- Thursday, March 1, 1973, 11:00, Meeting between Nixon and Meir at the White House -- 3. From Armonk to Golda's Kitchen-March-April 1973 -- The First Steps: March 1973 -- Meir Calms Her Ministers: "Nothing Will Be Done behind Our Backs" -- In Egypt: "We Will Wait for a Time to See What Results His Statement Will Bring" -- The Secret Channel-From Doing Business to Dragging Feet -- April: Military Tension Rising and Falling -- Operation "Spring of Youth" in Israel -- Meanwhile, in the Not-Secret-Enough Channel -- In Golda's Kitchen: Going to War, Not to a Political Agreement -- 4. To Paris and Back-May 1973 -- The First Warning from Hussein-"From Time to Time 'Charles' Has a Tendency to Exaggerate" -- Egyptian Conduct: If They Threaten, They Don't Fire -- The Meeting in Moscow-What Is Amusing Kissinger and Brezhnev? -- "Shaulson Will Be Disappointed" -- Kissinger's Distress: "I Think We Ought to Waste Time So That There's No Blowup". Kissinger and Ismail-Last Tango in Paris -- 5. Dayan: Gentlemen, Please Prepare for War-June-August 1973 -- On the Way to the Summit -- By the Wayside -- "Let Them Talk about Any Subject in the World Except Us" -- The Last Minute of the Summit: "Brezhnev Was Seized with an All-Consuming Desire to Discuss the Middle East" -- "We Came Out Well" -- "Who Would You Like to Be My Assistant for Middle Eastern Affairs?" -- Six Guests in the Officers' Club in Alexandria -- 6. Dayan's Political Conception-September 1973 -- "Terrorists Plotted to Bring Down an El Al Plane in Rome Using Russian Rockets" -- "What Is Moshe Dayan Cooking Up?" -- "The Americans Are Talking a Lot about the Need for Progress" -- A Three-Way Summit in Cairo -- September 13: Thirteen MiGs -- In Israel: "To Prepare the Army for a Period of Calm" -- Why Did They Advance the Zero Hour? -- "But We Were Going to Put Pressure on Them" -- "An Election Season Is Not a Convenient Time for Serious Discussion" -- 7. Six Days Before the War-Who Was Responsible? -- Sunday, September 30: In Israel No One Is Talking and No One Is Telling Kissinger -- Monday, October 1: "The Arabs Talk and Talk" -- Tuesday, October 2: "Israel Will Be Acting Foolishly If It Rejects the Kissinger Plan" -- Wednesday, October 3: "To Share the Picture Rather Than to Make a Decision" -- Thursday, October 4: "This Month We Will Not Transform the World" -- Friday, October 5: "The Russians Know That the Egyptians and Syrians Are Going to Attack" -- 8. Yisrael, What Do We Do Now? -- "The Entire IDF Should Not Be Mobilized Because of Zamir's Stories" -- "Zvika's Source Says That the War Can Be Avoided By an Information Leak" -- Planes Lacking a Political Captain -- Waking Kissinger: "We May Be in Trouble" -- "They'll Be Sorry" -- Appendix: The Story of Ashraf Marwan and the Yom Kippur War -- For Whom Was Marwan Acting?. Did Marwan Knowingly Deceive Israel? -- The False Warning Period -- Syria and Egypt Prepare for War -- The Last Days before the War -- Last-Day Question Marks -- To What Extent Did Marwan Affect Israeli Decision-Making? -- The Chief of Staff -- The Head of Military Intelligence -- The Head of the Mossad -- The Prime Minister -- The Defense Minister -- Who Revealed Ashraf Marwan's Identity? -- Was the Timing of Marwan's Death Coincidental? -- Dramatis Personae -- Timeline of Events -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Back Cover.