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.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
A great book marred by a bad audio edition:
I wish I knew how to just review the medium in which a product is delivered. This is an excellent book, detailed, written by somebody who clearly loves to write, impartial or when not impartial, thoughtful, as one can get in a book dealing with such a contentious topic. The book justly made the reputation of its author, and I enjoyed reading it so much that I got it on audio. Whoops. What a mistake. I am a stickler for getting details right, and I dislike pretense. Unfortunately, the actor behind the... more info
Required Reading to Understand Today's Front Pages:
The author is Israel's current ambassador to the United States and an American educated scholar of high ability. As such, he will have a key role in deciding what Israel will do in response to the looming nuclear threat from Iran. As this book shows, Mr. Owen is acutely aware of the numerous influences that both motivate and constrain Israel in using force to defend herself from perceived existential threats. The 1967 War was the most serious threat to Israel's safety and existence since 1948. How the... more info
The most comprehensive book published on the conflict:
Michael B. Oren's Six Days of War is probably the most comprehensive book published on Israel's 1967 conflict with the Arab world to date. Painstakingly researched and scrupulously fair, Oren's strength is dealing with the causes and effects of the war. He discusses every diplomatic move and counter-move that the belligerent countries and their superpower allies (the U.S. and U. S. S. R.) made, and how those decisions impact Middle East policy to this day. Oren is noticeably weaker when discussing the... more info
Never buy from The Book of Your Dreams:
The company "The Book of Your Dreams" sent me a used "Six Days of War" book with 50 pages completely missing! I've contacted them several times and gotten no response. Obviously they are a scam operation of some kind. Don't make the same mistake I did.
