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Six Days of War

Michael B. Oren
Six Days of War - June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
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$18.95
ISBN
9780345461926
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$13.50
Publisher
Presidio Press
Description

Though it lasted for only six tense days in June, the 1967 Arab-Israeli war never really ended.Every crisis that has ripped through this region in the ensuing decades, from the Yom Kippur War of 1973 to the ongoing intifada, is a direct consequence of those six days of fighting. Michael B. Oren’s magnificent Six Days of War, an internationally acclaimed bestseller, is the first comprehensive account of this epoch-making event.

Writing with a novelist’s command of narrative and a historian’s grasp of fact and motive, Oren reconstructs both the lightning-fast action on the battlefields and the political shocks that electrified the world.  Extraordinary personalities -- Moshe Dayan and Gamal Abdul Nasser, Lyndon Johnson and Alexei Kosygin -- rose and toppled from power as a result of this war; borders were redrawn; daring strategies brilliantly succeeded or disastrously failed in a matter of hours.  And the balance of power changed—in the Middle East and in the world. A towering work of history and an enthralling human narrative . . .