num_pages: 460
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, Six Days of War is the most important book on the Middle East conflict to appear in a generation.
language: None
title: Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
titlecomplete: Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
characters: Levi Eshkol
genres: History, Jewish, World History, War, Military History, Audiobook, Israel, Nonfiction, Military Fiction, Politics
ratings_count: 5101
places: Israel
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: History
publisher: Presidio Press