Books : Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
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by: Michael B. Oren
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 956.046
EAN: 9780345461926
ISBN: 0345461924
Label: Presidio Press
Manufacturer: Presidio Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 480
Publication Date: June 03, 2003
Publisher: Presidio Press
Release Date: June 03, 2003
Sales Rank: 32778
Studio: Presidio Press
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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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Rating:  - Just in Time
After reading Benny Morris' "1948", I was looking for the best book about the Six Day War of 1967. I thank my fellow Amazon reviewers for pointing me to Michael Oren's masterful work when I was initially considering a different book.
This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to better understand what's going on in the Middle East - as insightful as (and more detailed than) Thomas Friedman's landmark "From Beirut to Jerusalem" of 20 years ago. Oren understands that though we already ... Read More
Rating: - An Impressive Marshalling of Sources
Oren's history of the Six Day's War contains eight, tightly packed pages of source articles and books in English, French, Spanish, Hebrew, Arabic and Russian, seemingly covering the bases of source materials about the 1967 war, from memoirs to newspaper articles, government documents to personal recollections. Oren sheds much needed light on the Arab side of the conflict, the motivations, rivalries, strengths and weaknesses of Egypt, Syria and Jordan's military effort. All and all, he presents a detailed ... Read More
Rating: - Very In-Depth - Covers All Aspects of Six-Day War
Oren begins by looking at the context surrounding the Six-Day War. He looks at Palestinian terror attacks in Israel and their Syrian support, the plight of hundreds of thousands of displaced and angry Palestinians (from the 1948 war), Israel's eternal belief that it is both invincible and weak, the fighting between King Hussein, Nasser, and Syria's divided leadership and how it led to a need to turn the attention on a unifying foe (Israel), Arab disunity, etc. Looking at all these things and many more, Oren ... Read More
Rating: - How the Middle East Changed Forever in Six Days
I originally read this book based on a favorable reference by Washington Post op-ed columnist Charles Krauthammer. The Six Day War is one of the most pivotal events in modern Middle East History. It is when Israel took control of East Jerusalem, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, the Golan Heights and the Sinai Peninsula. This is why you often hear pro-Palestinian pundits demand for Israel to return to its pre-1967 borders, meaning the borders before this war.
The Six Day War is also when five Arabs nations ... Read More
Rating:  - Required Reading for Understanding the Current Middle East Situation
A very thorough and engaging book, "Six Days of War" was virtually impossible for me to put down. This is 'required reading' for anyone who wants a deeper understanding of current issues in the Middle East. the book will also be of assistance in understanding the rise of Pan-Arabism and Nasserism, the situation with the Occupied Territories (West Bank and Gaza), the fate of Jerusalem (even now the subject of
contentious debate between Israel and the Palestinians) and Israel's (uneasy) relations with the Arab nations ... Read More
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