Jordan was the most deeply affected of all the Arab nations by Israel's
victory in the 1967 war, in which huge tracts of Arab land, including
the West Bank, Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights, came
under Israel's control. Yet this is the first study to consider the war
from the Jordanian perspective. It analyses the reasons for Jordan's
unreserved and, to many, unexpected participation and provides a
detailed description of the dramatic three days of war, including an
analysis of the effects of Egyptian control of the Jordanian-Israeli
border. Samir Mutawi's use of interviews with surviving Jordanian
participants - politicians, military commanders, intelligence personnel
and, most importantly, King Hussein - as well as Jordanian army records
and books and memoirs in Arabic provides a new perspective on the war
and on Jordan's position in the immediate post-war period.