The Lion's Gate
by Steven Pressfield
The Six Day War through interviews with Israeli soldiers, pilots and commanders, arranged as a hybrid of oral history and narrative. Pressfield calls it 'hybrid history'; it reads like his novels.
Read it if…
you want the Six Day War through its participants.
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Skip it if…
you want a balanced political account.
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Three things you will actually use
- Initiative at every level.
- Speed is a weapon.
- Memory is told by those who were there.
Do this first
Read the paratroopers' chapters on Jerusalem.
Our verdict
The Six Day War, as voices.
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