Peace in the Making: The Menachem Begin-Anwar Sadat Personal Correspondence. This item is unavailable.Peace in the Making: The Menachem Begin-Anwar Sadat Personal Correspondence

Here, for the first time, is the complete correspondence between Israel’s Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egypt’s President Anwar el-Sadat as they wrestled with what would become their Nobel Peace Prize–winning accomplishment. The letters, together with transcripts of speeches, press conferences, interviews, rare photos and official documents, reveal the personal relationship the two leaders constructed, which was eventually reflected in the treaty they signed. The personalities, the principled issues, the maneuverings, the clashes, the compromises and agreements are all revealed in these letters. Covering the period from June 1977 until a day before Sadat’s assassination in October 1981, the Begin-Sadat correspondence affords a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the efforts, crises, and agonizing decisions these two leaders faced and overcame to achieve peace. Supplemented with photos and the full texts of the Camp David Accords and the Israel-Egypt peace treaty, this groundbreaking volume sheds new light on a peace process that succeeded.

Read the actual letters Egyptian President Anwar El-Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin exchanged with each other as they weighed the future of their two peoples, from their first meeting in 1977 until the assassination of El-Sadat in 1981.