The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of distinction between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards.
-- Sir William Francis Butler
The reminiscences of one of Egypt's greatest living soldiers, offering a first-hand account of the Egyptian-Israeli conflict and commentary on the roles of leading international figures during the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, such as Presidents Sadat and Nixon, Henry Kissinger and Golda Meir.