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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 Trade Size
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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. Orenβs magnificent Six Days of War, an internationally acclaimed bestseller, is the first comprehensive account of this epoch-making event. Writing with a novelistβs command of narrative and a historianβs grasp of fact and motive, Oren reconstructs both the lightning-fast action on the battlefields and the political shocks that electrified the world. Extraordinary personalitiesβMoshe Dayan and Gamal Abdul Nasser, Lyndon Johnson and Alexei Kosyginβrose 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 changedβin 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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