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.
Praise for Six Days of War
"Powerful . . . A highly readable, even gripping account of the 1967
conflict . . . [Oren] has woven a seamless narrative out of a
staggering variety of diplomatic and military strands."--The New York
Times
"With a remarkably assured style, Oren elucidates nearly every aspect of
the conflict. . . . Oren's [book] will remain the authoritative
chronicle of the war. His achievement as a writer and a historian is
awesome."--The Atlantic Monthly
"This is not only the best book so far written on the six-day war, it is
likely to remain the best."--The Washington Post Book World
"Phenomenal . . . breathtaking history . . . a profoundly talented
writer. . . .
This book is not only one of the best books on this critical episode in
Middle East history; it's one of the best-written books I've read this
year, in any genre."--The Jerusalem Post
"[In] Michael Oren's richly detailed and lucid account, the familiar
story is thrilling once again. . . . What makes this book important is
the breadth and depth of the research."--The New York Times Book
Review
"A first-rate new account of the conflict."--The Washington Post
"The definitive history of the Six-Day War . . . [Oren's] narrative is
precise but written with great literary flair. In no one else's study is
there more understanding or more surprise."--Martin Peretz, Publisher,
The New Republic
"Compelling, perhaps even vital, reading."--San Jose Mercury News
