Six days of war
Subtitle: June 1967 and the making of the modern Middle East
By: Michael B. Oren.
Edition: 1st Presidio Press ed.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9780345461926
Subjects: Israel-Arab War, 1967
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." "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "A Presidio Press book"--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: The context : Arabs, Israelis, and the great powers, 1948 to 1966; title: The catalysts : Samuʻ to Sinai; title: The crisis : two weeks in May; title: Countdown : May 31 to June 4; title: The war : Day one, June 5; title: Day two, June 6; title: Day three, June 7; title: Day four, June 8; title: Day five, June 9; title: Day six, June 10; title: Aftershocks : tallies, postmortems, and the old/new Middle East; title: Afterword; title: A conversation with Michael B. Oren.