This book was old fashioned political history, and as such not very interesting to me as a history book. I mean, the author managed to make warfare boring. Or rather if you didn't know there was a war going on at the time you'd hardly pick that up from this book. He talks about a few specific instances of violence, but you'd really think the entire thing was settled in Truman's office. Sure, there was the fact that the FBI turned a blind eye to them selling guns to the Israelis from American ports, but you wouldn't think those guns were ever used from this book's description of events.