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June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Presidio Press
June 2003
On Sale: June 3, 2003
480 pages
ISBN: 0345461924
EAN: 9780345461926
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Historical | Non-Fiction
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, Six Days of War is the most
important book on the Middle East conflict to appear in a
generation.
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