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Six Days of War - by Michael B Oren (Paperback)

Six Days of War - by  Michael B Oren (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In one of the most valuable recent works on this subject, Oren, a scholar and Senior Fellow at the Shalem Center, Jerusalem, details events from the Six Day War known in the Arab world as Al-Naksah or simply the June war. "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."<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b><i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER - The first comprehensive account of the epoch-making Six-Day War, from the author of <i>Ally</i><b>--</b>now featuring a fiftieth-anniversary retrospective</b> <p/> 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 <i>intifada</i>, is a direct consequence of those six days of fighting. <p/> 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, <i>Six Days of War</i> is the most important book on the Middle East conflict to appear in a generation. <p/><b>Praise for <i>Six Days of War</i></b> <p/>"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."<b><i>--The New York Times</i></b> <p/> "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."<b>--<i>The Atlantic Monthly</i></b><i> <p/> </i>"This is not only the best book so far written on the six-day war, it is likely to remain the best."<b>--<i>The</i> <i>Washington Post Book World</i></b> <p/> "Phenomenal . . . breathtaking history . . . a profoundly talented writer. . . . <br> 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."<b>--<i>The Jerusalem Post</i></b><i> <p/> </i>"[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."<b>--<i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b><i> <p/> </i>"A first-rate new account of the conflict."<b>--<i>The Washington Post</i></b><i> <p/> </i>"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."<b>--Martin Peretz, Publisher, <i>The New Republic</i></b><i> <p/> </i>"Compelling, perhaps even vital, reading."<b>--<i>San Jose Mercury News</i></b><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"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."<b><i>--The New York Times</i></b> <p/> "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."<b>--<i>The Atlantic Monthly</i></b><i> <p/> </i>"This is not only the best book so far written on the six-day war, it is likely to remain the best."<b>--<i>The</i> <i>Washington Post Book World</i></b> <p/> "Phenomenal . . . breathtaking history . . . a profoundly talented writer. . . . <br> 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."<b>--<i>The Jerusalem Post</i></b><i> <p/> </i>"[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."<b>--<i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b><i> <p/> </i>"A first-rate new account of the conflict."<b>--<i>The Washington Post</i></b><i> <p/> </i>"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."<b>--Martin Peretz, Publisher, <i>The New Republic</i></b><i> <p/> </i>"Compelling, perhaps even vital, reading."<b>--<i>San Jose Mercury News</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Michael B. Oren</b> is an American-born Israeli historian and author, and was Israel's ambassador to the United States from 2009 to 2013. He has written three <i>New York Times</i> bestsellers--<i>Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide; Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present;</i> and <i>Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East</i>, which won the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> Book Prize for history and the National Jewish Book Award. Throughout his illustrious career as a Middle East scholar, Dr. Oren has been a distinguished fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem, a contributing editor to <i>The New Republic, </i>and a visiting professor at Harvard, Yale, and Georgetown. <i>The Forward </i>named Oren one of the five most influential American Jews, and <i>The Jerusalem Post</i> listed him as one of the world's ten most influential Jews. He currently lives with his family in Tel Aviv. He is a member of the Knesset and the Deputy Minister for Diplomacy in the Prime Minister's Office.

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