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Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East

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

Writing with a novelist’s command of narrative and a historian’s seize of fact and motive, Oren reconstructs both the lightning-fast action at the battlefields and the political shocks that electrified the world. Abnormal personalities—Moshe Dayan and Gamal Abdul Nasser, Lyndon Johnson and Alexei Kosygin—rose and toppled from power on account 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 on this planet. A towering work of history and an enthralling human narrative, Six Days of War is a very powerful book at the Middle East conflict to appear in a generation.

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