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Six Days of War By Michael Oren
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East (special edition for the 40th anniversary of the Six Day War) By Michael Oren Hebrew Soft cover, 540, 2007 Catalogue number 1-9992463
This prize-decorated book presents the reader with the first-ever comprehensive historical account of the war that formed the modern Middle East. It is based on official documents from Israel, the United States, England, the FSU and the Arab states, as well as tens of interviews and oral documentation.
In Israel and in the West it is called "The Six Day War." In the Arab world it is known as "The June War" or simply as "The Defeat". Never has such a short, unexpected conflict, largely unwanted by both sides, generated such tremendous change in the world. The Yom Kippur War, the Lebanon War, the Camp David Accords, the conflict over Jerusalem and the West Bank settlements, The Intifada and the rise of Palestinian terrorism- all are outcomes of those six days of Arab-Israeli battle in the summer of 1967.
Michael Oren's book, Six Days of War,is the most comprehensive historical account of this dramatic and significant event, the first to examine it both as a military conflict and as a deciding chapter in the international cold war. Oren spotlights all the participants- Arabs, Israelis, Soviets and Americans- and describes how the war broke out and the fascinating ways it developed. Based upon thousands of top secret certificates, rare documents in Russian and Arabic, and exclusive interviews, Six Days of War reconstructs the regional and international context that sparked the Arab- Israeli conflict until the end of the sixties. The book also examines the internal crises in each of the battling countries, and sketches the portraits of the outstanding personalities- Moshe Dayan, Jamal Abed El-Nasser, Chafez El ??Assad, Yitzchak Rabin, Lyndon Johnson and Alexei Kosygin- who ushered in the confrontation that generated an earthquake.
"Michael Oren presents us with a detailed and many- faceted picture of the events and the dynamics of that period. The book constitutes an important step toward a better understanding of our regional and national history. May this understanding help us achieve peace in the Middle East." -Ehud Barak, former IDF Chief of Staff and Prime Minister of Israel
"Oren neutralizes all political opinions through his research, and from his perspective the war can be termed the Six Day War, the June War, or any other name: he sets out to examine it professionally??as a description, summary and analysis of the war, this book is superb." -Ha'aretz
Michael B. Oren is a Senior Fellow at the Shalem Center. An expert on the diplomatic and military history of the Middle East, he has written extensively for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The New Republic, of which he is a contributing editor. Dr. Oren is the author of Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Oxford University Press, 2002). The book was a New York Times bestseller, and won the Los Angeles Times' History Book of the Year prize and the National Jewish Book Award. His most recent book, Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present, was an instant New York Times best seller, on the list for eight weeks. |
