New dramatic series on the 1973 Yom Kippur War, from the Israeli perspective. Just watched the first episode in Hebrew with English subtitles and it is very well done. If you're interested in relatively modern Middle Eastern history, armor or hot chicks, you will enjoy.
Side note: the show made me curious as to what kind of main battle tank the Israelis fielded before the Merkava (1979) - but I'm not sure what is portrayed in this series.
In college in Oregon in the Mid 1970s, I met a few people who were there on the Israeli side. They had some pretty gruesome stories and -- as most of you probably know -- there comes a point where people just have to tell you about the most horrible things they have ever seen.
Their stories were hard to beat for gruesome detail, but not as enlightening as what I heard in NYC working in medical fraud detection in the early 1990s. One guy (a brilliant fraud detector) who had fought in the wars around the Central African republic always told his war stories with pauses for "What would you have done." I generally died horribly in his version of events (crocodiles got me twice!)...he had a brilliant sense of humor and he survived so there you go.
Another fellow had some complicated stories about how to do a mutiny in Czechoslavakia in 1947....though his best stories were about pursuing American girls who always had some weird flaw (according to him) such as "You know...she said she had been reincarnated."
Oh well...I'm sure I'll try to watch the show.
