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The Lion's Gate: On the Front Lines of the Six Day War
By Pressfield, Steven
- ISBN
- 9781595230911
- Publisher
- Sentinel
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Reviewed on June 1, 2014 | Social Sciences
On June 5, 1967, Israel launched an attack against Egyptian forces that had been amassing at the border, and six days later Israel had defeated the armies of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan and gained control of the Gaza Strip, West Bank, the Sinai peninsula, and Golan Heights. Pressfield (The War of Art) here attempts a "hybrid history" of the Six Day War by conducting scores of interviews with members of the Israel Defense Forces who participated in the conflict....Log In or Sign Up to Read More
