What exactly drove you to the place where you wanted to write about, you know, one of the seminal moments in history? The impetus for wanting to do a six-day war book was kind of a Jewish midlife crisis with me. I didn't find out that I was a Jew till I was 12, I guess. And my dad kind of laid it on me one day and I said, whoa, you know, and that was, you know, back in the days of, this was, I guess this was the early, this was the 50s or something right? Right. When it was kind of, there was a lot of antitism around and the whole, I mean, not that there isn't today. But in any event, it was really clear that, you know, my family and a lot of the families knew were really from the assimilation school of being a Jew in America, you know, where you kind of, you know, my name, press field is the Anglicized version of Pretzfeld, you know, other people in my, which was a German Jewish name. And so I realized that, you know, my family was like really ashamed of being Jewish. But I had acquired just like every other American kid, a healthy dose of antitism, you know? Wow. And that, my first thing that I, that I did after like a week or two of Shell shock, I said, okay, I'm going to get with the program, you know? So I'm going to start going to Temple. I'm going to connect with my Jewishness, so there was no Temple in my town. So I went to the next town, Chapaclo, but what happened was the real Jews rejected me because I was like this geek Jew that didn't know, you know, Bar Mitzvah didn't know, you know, how to say Shalom and, you know, and plus I wasn't anti-Semite. I'm sorry. So low thing going on right? So, then came 1967, the Six Day War. And up until then, I had only been kind of vaguely aware that there was Israel. Right? I mean, it was something over there, you know? And suddenly, all over TV were Jewish fighter pilots, Jewish paratroopers, Jewish guys kicking ass over there, you know? And the central character was Moshe Diane, with the eye patch, who was like a super stud guy with the great accent and all that kind of stuff. So suddenly I thought, wow, these are Jews I couldn't relate to. It's not sticky green. You're like a guy here. And in fact, I was in the Marine Corps at the time. And I was in the reserves at the time. So I started to think to myself, why am I going to Vietnam or getting set to go to Vietnam? I didn't go to Vietnam. Thank God. I should be in Israel fighting with Moshe Diane. But then the war was over. So six days was over. And then the next news cycle came along. So it sort of lived in my mind. And finally kind of popped out when we started talking about, I had the idea that I should write something about that. I've written war books about the Spartans, the Athenians, the Macedonians, the British, but never about my own people. And I thought, and here's this great story, the Six Day War, 1967, incredible story that nobody's, I mean, there have been a million books, but nobody's ever done it, like I'm going to do it. A little bit prior to starting the Lionsgate, I met this guy, Rabbi Finley, Rabbi Mordekai Finley, in LA, half Irish, half Jewish, red-headed guy with a ponytail, former Marine, son is a Marine in Iraq right now, or at that time, and was a real, just a great teacher, kind of like a Robert McKee kind of guy. He went to his classes about Jewish mysticism and stuff like that. And I thought, wow, this is incredible. I thought it was just, you know, bunch of guys, you know, getting this. Yeah, all right. Wow. This is a great Rabbi Finley. I love the guy. And he told me that he had a similar experience with the Six Day War in 1967, where, you know, Irish father, Jewish mother, not relating to their Jewish roots, then the Six Day War came. They lived in Compton, you know, kind of a black neighborhood in LA, and suddenly the whole family kind of sat down, and they said, we're going to connect to our Jewish roots, including the dad, Mr. Finley. Of course. So, at that point, you know, Rabbi Finley kind of changed his whole life, you know, and he's like a white kid in Compton at the time, and he just kind of got into the whole thing, you know, got into being Jewish and became a Rabbi. The other thing was that I knew, having this book, the idea of a book about the Six Day War, what I knew would change, change me. You know, and it was going to force me to go to Israel to meet with people God only knows what I was going to experience, you know. Yeah. And meet kind of people I would never have met before. No clue what would happen. Right. And I wanted that, you know, because I thought, this is going to be like, you know, like a real world asset trip, where you really go in for weeks and weeks or things. For weeks and you're going to come out on another, a different person. So, I forgot if I told you that when we were talking at that time, but, no, you just said, I was, I was running in the historic anode, at the Six Day War. Yeah. You can you sell it? Yeah. The most important thing for writing a proposal must make it definitive and original and, you know, got a lot of dreams. Pressfield's only written fiction has no name and nonfiction. It's not a journal.