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

Name: Six Days of War June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
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ISBN: 9780345461926

ISBN-10: 0345461924

ISBN-13: 9780345461926

Edition: 2003

Authors: Michael B. Oren

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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…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/3/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.10" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Michael B. Oren, Senior Fellow at the Shalem Center, has written numerous works on the Middle East, including the New York Times bestsellers Six Days of War and Power, Faith, and Fantasy. He has taught at Harvard, Yale, and Georgetown universities, and currently serves as Israel's ambassador to the United States.



List of Maps


Acknowledgments


A Note on Sources and Spellings


Foreword


The Context: Arabs, Israelis, and the Great Powers, 1948 to 1966


The Catalysts: Samu' to Sinai


The Crisis: Two Weeks in May


Countdown: May 31 to June 4


The War: Day One, June 5


Day Two, June 6


Day Three, June 7


Day Four, June 8


Day Five, June 9


Day Six, June 10


Aftershocks: Tallies, Postmortems, and the Old/New Middle East


Afterword


A Conversation with Michael B. Oren


Notes


Bibliography and Sources


Index