This book is a basic reference for the October War; His writer is one of the leaders who confessed to his intelligence and skill, the enemy and the friend, in which he put in place accurate details of the war, for years before launching the attack, and he did not leave a stray or a loss. Lieutenant General Saad Eddin Al -Shazly was the AUTHOR of the plan that the Egyptian army followed in the famous October War, assuming the position of chief of staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces war, before the commander of the Red Sea military region, and a ambassador to Egypt in Britain and Portugal, and held a number of other military positions.