Israel and the six-day war

The book acts less of the war, or of the question, how seriously the military threat of Israel was in May 1967 actual. Primarily Segev wrote over Israel: Over the motives of the acting participants in politics and military, above all however over the tendency in the country and the reasons for it, why the Israeli society reacted in such a way to the threat, as it reacted.

On the basis of archives materials, diaries, letters and interviews Segev draws collageartig the picture of a deeply depressive tendency in the months before the war, which changes in the course of the overwhelming military victory to euphoria and over courage. From this stress ratio it finally leads the crucial steps off the decision to the preventive military strike and for the occupation of large regions Arab neighbour states.