Three Weeks in October

Plot

I was surprised at how good this novel is. Yael Dayan tells a story of the first three weeks during the Yom Kippur War in October 1973. The two major parts of the work focus on a wife and husband, a couple with two children, the wife of whom volunteers during the war in a hospital burns unit- the husband who at the end of the war goes down to the Southern Front and is involved in the last fighting of the war in Suez City where he is wounded.