Bibliographic Essay ••• 519sonal accounts by Palestinians include Leila Khaled's My People Shall Live: The
Autobiography of a Revolutionary\ ed. George Hajjar (London: Hodder &
Stoughton, 1973); and Fawaz Turki, Soul in Exile: Lives of a Palestinian Revolution¬
ary (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1988). On Palestinian politics generally,
read Yazid Sayigh, Armed Struggle and the Search for State: The Palestine National
Movement, 1949-1993 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997). On the PLO, history and
documents can be found at http://www.palestine-un.org/info/frindex.html. For
Arafat's life and policies, see on the Web: http://electronicintifada.net/v2/
article3288.shtml (favorable) and http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/
biography/arafat.html (hostile).
There are numerous books about the October (or Yom Kippur) War of 1973.
On the Arab background, see Mohamed Heikal, The Road to Ramadan (New
York: Quadrangle, 1975); regarding Israel, see Michael Handel, Perception, Mis-
perception, and Surprise: The Case of the Yom Kippur War (Jerusalem: Hebrew
University Press, 1975). On the events of the war itself, we recommend Saad al-
Shazly's The Crossing of the Suez (San Francisco: American Mideast Research,
1980), an Egyptian account hostile to Sadat; Chaim Herzog's two books, The War
of Atonement (Boston: Little, Brown, 1975) and The Arab-Israeli Wars (New York:
Random House, 1982); Abraham Rabinovich's journalistic but detailed The Yom
Kippur War: The Epic Encounter That Transformed the Middle East (New York:
Schocken, 2004); and Howard Blum's The Eve of Destruction: The Untold Story of
the Yom Kippur War (New York: Perennial, 2003). On the political side, see Walter
Z. Laqueur, Confrontation: The Middle East War and World Politics (London: Aba¬
cus; New York: Quadrangle, 1974); Richard Parker, The October War: A Retrospec¬
tive (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001); and the essays edited by
Naseer Aruri called Middle East Crucible: Studies on the Arab-Israeli War of 1973
(Wilmette, IL: Medina University Press International, 1975). A pro-Israel Web site
on the October War is http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/
1973toc.html, which should be compared with http://www.counterpunch.org/
faruquil0152003.html.
Kissinger's role in the postwar peace negotiations is praised in Edward Shee-
han's The Arabs, Israelis, and Kissinger (New York: Reader's Digest Press, 1976) and
attacked in Matti Golan's Secret Conversations of Henry Kissinger (New York:
Quadrangle, 1976). On US policies generally, compare Joseph Churba, The Politics
of Defeat: America's Decline in the Middle East (New York: Cyrco Press, 1977), with
Cheryl A. Rubenberg, Israel and the American National Interest (Urbana: Univer¬
sity of Illinois Press, 1986). On the post-October peace process generally, see
http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_ 1967to 199 l_ykwar_agreements.php. for Israel's
view, and http://www.ahram.org.eg/acpss/eng/ahram/2004/7/5/stud8.htm for its
effect on Egypt.
Several major actors in the search for Middle East peace justify their roles:
Henry Kissinger, in Years of Upheaval (Boston: Little, Brown, 1982); Golda Meir in