Goodreads asked Clifford Sobin:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Clifford Sobin From a couple pages I wrote in my last book, The Pivotal Years: Israel and the Arab World 1966 - 1977. Within those pages, I describe an individual journeying to the ruins of Gush Etzion within days after the end of the Six-Day War. Every time I reread that section I get goosebumps thinking what it must have been like to return as a man to his home as a child. Gush Etzion's destruction and re-birth is a story that cries out to be told.

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