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The best-selling writer of Gates of Fireplace and Getting rid of 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. In the meantime, the Syrian Army is shelling the much smaller country from the north. And to the east, Jordan and Iraq are moving brigades and fighter squadrons into position to strike. Egypt's Leader Nasser has declared that the Arab world's goal is a minimum of "the destruction of Israel." June 10, 1967: The blended Arab armies are in ruins, their air pushes totally destroyed. Israel's citizen-soldiers have seized the Gaza Remove and the whole Sinai Peninsula from Egypt, the Golan Levels from Syria, East Jerusalem and the Western world Lender 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, reaching up with a gang of paratroopers who've already brought up the blue and white flag that structures the Superstar of David. How on earth have this happen? Only Steven Pressfield could easily get the real tale from the fighter jocks in the air, the container commanders through the fine sand, and the infantrymen on the ground. Through more than 300 time of interviews conducted in Israel, he has written a gripping chronicle of the six days that changed the Middle East permanently. He also captures the universal experience of individual military compelled to stare down mortal fear and move headlong into a firestorm. The Lion's Gate blends the immediacy of Make Bowden's Dark colored Hawk Down, the esprit de corps of Stephen Ambrose's Music group of Brothers, and the heart and soul of Adam Bradley's Flags of the Fathers. It'll join the essential canon of military nonfiction.
