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Red Star on the Nile: The Soviet-Egyptian Relationship Since the June War

Alvin Z. Rubinstein
Reviewed by John C. Campbell
July 1977
Red Star on the Nile: The Soviet-Egyptian Relationship Since the June War
Alvin Z. Rubinstein
Princeton University Press
1977
383 pp.
$25.00
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