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The Lion's Gate - Steven Pressfield

By Steven Pressfield

Release Date: 2014-05-06

Genre: Middle Eastern History

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ā€œA 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.ā€
ā€”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 nationā€™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. Egyptā€™s President Nasser has declared that the Arab forceā€™s objective is ā€œthe destruction of Israel.ā€ The rest of the world turns a blind eye to the new nationā€™s desperate peril.

June 10, 1967. The Arab armies have been routed, ground divisions wiped out, air forces totally destroyed. Israelā€™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 Lionā€™s Gate of the Old City of Jerusalem to stand with the paratroopers who have liberated Judaismā€™s holiest siteā€”the Western Wall, part of the ruins of Solomonā€™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 warā€”fighter and helicopter pilots, tank commanders and Recon soldiers, paratroopers, as well as women soldiers, wives, and othersā€”bestselling author Steven Pressfield tells the story of the Six Day War as youā€™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 Lionā€™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 oneā€™s people.

The Lion's Gate - Steven Pressfield

By Steven Pressfield

Release Date: 2014-05-06

Genre: Middle Eastern History

4.5 (74 ratings)
Read Download
ā€œA 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.ā€
ā€”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 nationā€™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. Egyptā€™s President Nasser has declared that the Arab forceā€™s objective is ā€œthe destruction of Israel.ā€ The rest of the world turns a blind eye to the new nationā€™s desperate peril.

June 10, 1967. The Arab armies have been routed, ground divisions wiped out, air forces totally destroyed. Israelā€™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 Lionā€™s Gate of the Old City of Jerusalem to stand with the paratroopers who have liberated Judaismā€™s holiest siteā€”the Western Wall, part of the ruins of Solomonā€™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 warā€”fighter and helicopter pilots, tank commanders and Recon soldiers, paratroopers, as well as women soldiers, wives, and othersā€”bestselling author Steven Pressfield tells the story of the Six Day War as youā€™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 Lionā€™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 oneā€™s people.

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