Uri Kaufman is the author of the newly released book Eighteen Days in October: The Yom Kippur War and the Making of the Modern Middle East (St. Martin’s Press). He lives in Lawrence, NY with his wife and four children.
Uri Kaufman
By Uri Kaufman
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