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Read The Lion's Gate recentlyquote:June 5, 1967. 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. So it's a recounting of various parts of the Six Day War as told by the various people Pressfield interviewed. There are weak parts - whole sections of the war are left out, he jumps to different pov's too frequently, and the bits with Moshe Dayan are fictional. But the book does a great job at capturing the feeling leading up to and during the war that the common soldier must have felt. The sections on the air portion of the war I found particularly fascinating, and he spends a lot of time on the minutiae of it if you're into that. Im currently reading Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety. It uses a recounting of a Titan II silo accident in 1980 to talk about the history of our nuclear program. I haven't read similar books on the same subject, some already mentioned in this thread, so I don't know how it stacks up or if all of this is just old info, but it's pretty good so far in that terrifying way reading about heads of state talk about killing millions of people matter of factly can be
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