Though it lasted for only six tense days in June, the 1967Arab-Israeli war never really ended. Every crisis that has rippedthrough this region in the ensuing decades, from the Yom Kippur Warof 1973 to the ongoing intifada, is a direct consequence of thosesix days of fighting. Michael B. Oren’s magnificent Six Days ofWar, an internationally acclaimed bestseller, is the firstcomprehensive account of this epoch-making event.
Writing with a novelist’s command of narrative and a historian’sgrasp of fact and motive, Oren reconstructs both the lightning-fastaction on the battlefields and the political shocks thatelectrified the world. Extraordinary personalities—Moshe Dayan andGamal Abdul Nasser, Lyndon Johnson and Alexei Kosygin—rose andtoppled from power as a result of this war; borders were redrawn;daring strategies brilliantly succeeded or disastrously failed in amatter of hours. And the balance of power changed—in the MiddleEast and in the world. A towering work of history and anenthralling human narrative, Six Days of War is the most importantbook on the Middle East conflict to appear in a generation.
【作者简介】
Michael B. Oren is the author of TheOrigins of the Second Arab-Israeli War, and has writtenextensively on Middle Eastern history and diplomatic affairs. Hereceived his Ph.D. from Princeton University in Middle Eaststudies. He has served as Director of Israel’s Department ofInter-Religious Affairs in the government of the late PrimeMinister Yitzhak Rabin, and as an adviser to the Israeli delegationto the United Nations. He is currently a Senior Fellow at theShalem Center in Jerusalem.
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