Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
- Kategoria:
- historia
- Wydawnictwo:
- Presidio Press
- Data wydania:
- 2003-06-03
- Data 1. wydania:
- 2003-06-03
- Liczba stron:
- 496
- Czas czytania
- 8 godz. 16 min.
- Język:
- angielski
- ISBN:
- 9780345461926
- Tagi:
- izrael egipt syria jordania bliski wschód azja wojna sześciodniowa lata 60. XX wiek historia
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The first comprehensive account of the epoch-making Six-Day War, from the author of Ally—now featuring a fiftieth-anniversary retrospective
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.
Writing with a novelist’s command of narrative and a historian’s grasp of fact and motive, Michael B. 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.