
The Lion's Gate
On the Front Lines of the Six Day War
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Malcolm Hillgartner
The best-selling author of Gates of Fire and Killing Rommel delivers his first work of military nonfiction - an epic narrative of the Six Day War.
June 5, 1967: The fearsome, Soviet-equipped Egyptian Army and its 1,000 tanks are massed on Israel's southern border. Meanwhile, the Syrian Army is shelling the much smaller nation from the north. And to the east, Jordan and Iraq are moving brigades and fighter squadrons into position to attack. Egypt's President Nasser has declared that the Arab world's goal is no less than "the destruction of Israel."
June 10, 1967: The combined Arab armies are in ruins, their air forces totally destroyed. Israel's citizen-soldiers have seized the Gaza Strip and the entire Sinai Peninsula from Egypt, the Golan Heights from Syria, East Jerusalem and the West Bank from Jordan. The land under Israeli control has tripled. The charismatic, eye-patch wearing Defense Minister Moshe Dayan has barreled through the Lion's Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem, meeting up with a gang of paratroopers who have already raised the blue and white flag that frames the Star of David.
How on earth did this happen?
Only Steven Pressfield could get the real story from the fighter jocks in the air, the tank commanders through the sand, and the infantrymen on the ground. Through more than 300 hours of interviews conducted in Israel, he has written a gripping chronicle of the six days that changed the Middle East forever. He also captures the universal experience of individual soldiers compelled to stare down mortal fear and move headlong into a firestorm.
The Lion's Gate blends the immediacy of Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down, the esprit de corps of Stephen Ambrose's Band of Brothers, and the soul of James Bradley's Flags of Our Fathers. It will join the indispensable canon of military nonfiction.
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Amazingly fascinating
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Excellent Book
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The only negative to the book is that after the initial success and bloodiest battles, accounts drift into arrogant crowing about how brilliant, brave and superior Israelis were to opposing Arab powers. Egypt got a chance to deflate some of this bombast in 1973.
All in all, it was an excellent book that helped me better understand why the Israeli air force is considered to be one best in the world and why Israel must continue to maintain extremely strong military forces and why it is reluctant to turn over territory that has been paid for with so much of their blood.
Overall Excellent Six Day War Memoirs
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Makes pivotal history personal
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Fascinating story
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An interesting military narrative
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A look into the character of a nation
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There were many story lines being told from many participants points of view. Keeping up with the characters was occasionally confusing.
Provides deeper understanding of the complexity of winning the war
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Book gives detailed insight into the men who fought and died and those who fought and lived. For those who, like me, are not well informed about the geography of the land or scenes of battle, I Still did get an appreciation into the level of commitment and mystical, if you will, bond of being a Jewish Warrior and the cost of that. It would be much more appreciated by someone who knew the geography and Jewish culture, history.
Good Read
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Extraordinary in Every Way
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