Nasser's gamble : how intervention in Yemen caused the Six-Day War and the decline of Egyptian power / Jesse Ferris.

Princeton, New Jersey ; Woodstock, Oxfordshire : Princeton University Press, 2013.

x, 342 pages : Grayscale Illustration ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Jacket Photograph: Abdul Nasser Meets the Yemeni People. from al-Quwwat al-Musallahah, Egyptian weekly journal, supplement to volume 412, May 1, 1964. Courtesy of The Arabic Press Archive, Moshe Dayan Center, Tel Aviv University Israel.

Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2019. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])

Published by Princeton University Press.

This book has been composed in Palatino.

Printed on acid-free paper.

Printed in the United States of America.

The Road to War -- The Soviet-Egyptian Intervention in Yemen -- Food for “Peace”: The Breakdown of US-Egyptian Relations, 1962–65 -- Guns for Cotton: The Unraveling of Soviet-Egyptian Relations, 1964–66 On the Battlefi eld in Yemen—and in Egypt -- The Fruitless Quest for Peace: Saudi-Egyptian Negotiations, 1964–66 -- The Six-Day War and the End of the Intervention in Yemen.