Six Days of War

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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 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.

subjects: Israel-Arab War,  Guerra Árabe-Israelí,  Arabisch-Israëlisch conflict,  Sechstagekrieg,  Auswirkung,  Zesdaagse Oorlog,  Politics and government,  Guerra dos seis dias,  Arab-Israeli conflict,  History of Middle east,  Israel-arab war, 1967,  Middle east, history, 20th century,  Israel-Arab War (1967) fast (OCoLC)fst00980283,  New York Times reviewed,  History

People: Moshe Dayan,  Gamal Abdul Nasser,  Lyndon Johnson,  Alexei Kosygin

Places: Egypt,  Israel,  Jordan,  Syria

Times: 20th century,  1967