The Lion's Gate: On the Front Lines of the Six Day War

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"A brilliant look into the psyche of combat. Where he once took us into
the Spartan line of battle at Thermopylae, Steven Pressfield now takes
us into the sands of the Sinai, the alleys of Old Jerusalem, and into
the hearts and souls of soldiers winning a spectacularly improbable
victory against daunting odds.”
General Stanley McChrystal, U.S. Army, ret.; author of My Share of the Task

June 5, 1967. The
nineteen-year-old state of Israel is surrounded by enemies who want
nothing less than her utter extinction. The Soviet-equipped
Egyptian Army has massed a thousand tanks on the nation’s southern
border. Syrian heavy guns are shelling her from the north. To the east,
Jordan and Iraq are moving mechanized brigades and fighter
squadrons into position to attack. Egypt’s President Nasser has declared
that the Arab force’s objective is “the destruction of Israel.” The
rest of the world turns a blind eye to the new nation’s desperate peril.

June 10, 1967. The
Arab armies have been routed, ground divisions wiped out, air forces
totally destroyed. Israel’s citizen-soldiers have seized the Gaza Strip
and the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt, the Golan Heights from Syria, East
Jerusalem and the West Bank from Jordan. The land under Israeli control
has tripled. Her charismatic defense minister, Moshe Dayan, has entered
the Lion’s Gate of the Old City of Jerusalem to stand with the
paratroopers who have liberated Judaism’s holiest site—the Western Wall,
part of the ruins of Solomon’s temple, which has not been in
Jewish hands for nineteen hundred years.

It is one of the most unlikely and astonishing military victories in history.


Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews with veterans of the
war—fighter and helicopter pilots, tank commanders and Recon soldiers,
paratroopers, as well as women soldiers, wives, and
others—bestselling author Steven Pressfield tells the story of the Six
Day War as you’ve never experienced it before: in the voices of the
young men and women who battled not only for their lives but for the
survival of a Jewish state, and for the dreams of their ancestors.

By turns inspiring, thrilling, and heartbreaking, The Lion’s Gate is both a true tale of military courage under fire and a journey into the heart of what it means to fight for one’s people.

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4.2
4 reviews
A Google user
December 28, 2015
Very moving and real. Pressfield allows us to see the battlefields through the eyes of the soldiers... and feel the emotions they felt... In fact, I was so moved several times that I have to pause my reading, before continuing after I gathered myself...
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About the author

Steven Pressfield is the author of twelve previous books, including the bestselling novels Gates of Fire and The Legend of Bagger Vance, as well as the cult classic on creativity, The War of Art.  He lives in Los Angeles.

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