{"product_id":"six-days-of-war-june-1967-and-the-making-of-the-modern-middle-east","title":"Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East","description":"\u003cp\u003eNEW 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWriting 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for Six Days of War\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Phenomenal . . . breathtaking history . . . a profoundly talented writer. . . .\u003cbr\u003eThis 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A first-rate new account of the conflict.\"--The Washington Post\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Compelling, perhaps even vital, reading.\"--San Jose Mercury News\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"gentle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48763377582217,"sku":"9780345461926","price":50.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/9289\/1785\/files\/9780345461926.jpg?v=1792819061","url":"https:\/\/thisisgentle.com\/products\/six-days-of-war-june-1967-and-the-making-of-the-modern-middle-east","provider":"gentle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}