Hi there, there are many excellent sources, it depends on the level you wish to delve into. Rather than give you a rundown of the war, because there are so many aspects, I can give you some good literature. For a cursory and popular history overview, I recommend the chapters on 20th century Arab history in Tim Mackintosh-Smiths 'Arabs: A 3000 year history'. Its really easy to read and accessible.

Taking it to a higher level, rather than focus solely on the Yom Kippur war, you'd do better to focus on the wider Arab Israeli conflicts, as well as to situate them inside the cold War setting. The below sources are a little tougher but if you're interested in it, here are some fantastic sources.

For an overview of the conflict, Kirsten Schulze, The Arab-Israeli Conflict

On 1967, the special issue of the Middle East Journal (Spring 1992), essays by Parker, Quandt, and Gera. See also Laura James', Nasser at War (pick out the relevant chapters)

For 1973, David Tal's 'Who Needed the October 1973 War?' is a good resource from the Middle Eastern Studies Journal I believe.

If the intelligence side interests you, as it was so crucial to the war, D. Rezk's 'Re-evaluating the Yom Kippur Intelligence Failure' from the International History Review.

More generally, Nigel Ashtons' The Cold War and the Middle East situates it within the cold War.

Fortunately, almost all of these sources can be found online which is a blessing!

You have run into one of the big myths of contemporary Egyptian nationalism. The Yom Kippur war is celebrated as a great victory, hence the panorama in Heliopolis and the naming of madinat 6 October etc. In reality Egypt lost the war, which ended with the Israelis surrounding Suez and reaching 60 miles from Cairo before a ceasefire was arranged. But although it was a military defeat, it was in some ways a political victory for Egypt. The initial Egyptian assault across the canal into Israeli-occupied Sinai had been impressive. Egyptian forces broke through the Israeli fortifications fairly easily, and killed or took prisoner hundreds of Israeli soldiers. They also defeated the first Israeli counterattack. So while the Israelis did ultimately manage to push back and cross the canal onto the Egyptian mainland, the early Egyptian successes changed the dynamics in the region. Previously, after the 6-Day War, Israel had imagined itself in a position of overwhelming dominance, but 1973 shocked Israeli leaders. So this began the diplomatic process that eventually led to the recovery of Sinai and the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel.

For information on Egyptian history and historiography you might enjoy the website of Khaled Fahmy, he is a historian at Cambridge and as well as writing academic publications he also writes a lot of interesting Facebook posts and media articles on modern Egypt, in Arabic and English. You can find them on the website: https://khaledfahmy.org/ar/