Anwar Sadat : visionary who dared /
This is the first major study of President Anwar Sadat by a journalist who came to know him well in the last few years of his life. Joseph Finklestone became intrigued by the unlikely and amazing story of Sadat's rise to power from an uncompromising beginning as a boy born into poverty, a fanat...
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London ; Portland, Or.:
Frank Cass,
1996.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: Meeting the President
- 1. The peasant
- 2. Search for an identity
- 3. Traumatic years in prison
- 4. Crucial meeting with Jihan
- 5. Sadat and Nasser in conflict
- 6. Road to catastrophe and renewal
- 7. Sadat the surprise President
- 8. Sadat starts a new revolution
- 9. War and the great deception
- 10. How Soviet leaders joined in Sadat's deception game
- 11. The October explosion
- 12. Kissinger enters the scene
- 13. Towards a breakthrough
- 14. Breaking a psychological barrier
- 15. Looking to Jerusalem
- 16. Trouble at home
- 17. First steps to peace
- 18. Mixed fortunes
- 19. Hero in Jerusalem, villain in Damascus
- 20. The rocky road to Camp David
- 21. Bargaining for peace: vision and reality
- 22. Breakthrough: anger and tears
- 23. Unfulfilled hopes: the road to tragedy
- 24. Death on Victory Parade
- Conclusion: Reflections on a tragedy.