{"product_id":"9780345461926","title":"Six Days of War June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East - Oren, Michael B.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cu\u003eSix Days of War June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East\u003c\/u\u003e by Oren, Michael B.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished by Random House Publishing Group, 2003\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The first comprehensive account of the epoch-making Six-Day War, from the author of Ally\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003enow featuring a fiftieth-anniversary retrospective\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\n\n 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.\n\n\n\n Writing with a novelist’s command of narrative and a historian’s grasp of fact and motive, Michael B. 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.\n\n\n\n\u003cb\u003ePraise for Six Days of War\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\n\n“Powerful . . . A highly readable, even gripping account of the 1967 conflict . . . [Oren] has woven a seamless narrative out of a staggering variety of diplomatic and military strands.”\u003cb\u003e—The New York Times\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\n\n “With a remarkably assured style, Oren elucidates nearly every aspect of the conflict. . . . Oren’s [book] will remain the authoritative chronicle of the war. His achievement as a writer and a historian is awesome.”\u003cb\u003e—The Atlantic Monthly\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\n\n “This is not only the best book so far written on the six-day war, it is likely to remain the best.”\u003cb\u003e—The Washington Post Book World\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\n\n “Phenomenal . . . breathtaking history . . . a profoundly talented writer. . . . \n\n This book is not only one of the best books on this critical episode in Middle East history; it’s one of the best-written books I’ve read this year, in any genre.”\u003cb\u003e—The Jerusalem Post\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\n\n “[In] Michael Oren’s richly detailed and lucid account, the familiar story is thrilling once again. . . . What makes this book important is the breadth and depth of the research.”\u003cb\u003e—The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\n\n “A first-rate new account of the conflict.”\u003cb\u003e—The Washington Post\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\n\n “The definitive history of the Six-Day War . . . [Oren’s] narrative is precise but written with great literary flair. In no one else’s study is there more understanding or more surprise.”\u003cb\u003e—Martin Peretz, Publisher, The New Republic\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\n\n “Compelling, perhaps even vital, reading.”\u003cb\u003e—San Jose Mercury News\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003csmall\u003eProduct image is for illustration purposes only and may not be an exact representation of the product offered for sale.\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group, 2003","offers":[{"title":"Six Days of War June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East \/ Very Good","offer_id":53250720497956,"sku":"9780345461926VG","price":9.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/9951\/4148\/files\/public_5ce6a808-0f91-4070-ad89-ef76f60b6ded.jpg?v=1781792906","url":"https:\/\/brookingsbooks.com\/products\/9780345461926","provider":"Brookings Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}