Osprey Men-at-Arms №165. Sam Katz, Lee E Russell. Armies in Lebanon 1982-84

Osprey Publishing, 1982. — 50 p. — ISBN: 0850454506. Surrounded by hostile nations, Israel has fought six victorious wars between 1948 and 1973. For a force which began as an irregular, impoverished and improvised group, this is a formidable record.

Osprey Publishing, 1982. — 50 p. — ISBN: 0850454514. The modern wars of the Middle East began in 1947, when the Syrians, Egyptians, Jordanians and Lebanese were unofficially at war with the Jewish settlers of Palestine. On the 15 May, the day afer Israel was declared a sovreign state, the Arab invasion began. Between then and 1973 five wars occurred: those of 1948; the Sinai...

Osprey Publishing, 1983. — 50 p. — ISBN: 0850455146. On 8 March 1965 some 3,500 US Marines, the first US combat troops to arrive in Vietnam, landed in Da Nang to defend the US air base there. On 8 June, following further reinforcements, General Westmoreland authorised his troops to begin 'offensive patrolling'.