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Six days of war : June 1967 and the making of the modern Middle East / Michael B. Oren.
- Title
- Six days of war : June 1967 and the making of the modern Middle East / Michael B. Oren.
- Author
- Oren, Michael B., 1955-
- Publication
- New York : Ballantine Books, 2003.
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- Description
- xv, 460 p., [16] p. of pl. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "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."--Jacket.
- Subjects
- Note
- "A Presidio Press book"--T.p. verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The context : Arabs, Israelis, and the great powers, 1948 to 1966 -- The catalysts : Samuʻ 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.
- ISBN
- 0345461924 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2003103713
- OCLC
- 52305644
- SCSB-10679208
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library