Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East

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.. In the Arab world, it is known as the June War, or simply as "the Setback." Never has a conflict so short, unforeseen, and largely unwanted by both sides so transformed the world. Writing with a novelist's command of narrative and a historian's grasp of fact and motive, Michael B. Drawing on thousands of top-secret documents and exclusive personal interviews, he recreates the regional and international context that, by the late 1960s, virtually assured an Arab-Israeli conflagration. The Yom Kippur War, the war in Lebanon, the Camp David accords, the controversy over Jerusalem and Jewish settlements in the West Bank, the intifada, and the rise of Palestinian terror are all part of the outcome of those six days of intense Arab-Israeli fighting in the summer of 1967. In Israel and the West, it is called the Six Day War. Oren spotlights all the participants--Arab, Israeli, Soviet, and American--that were involved in this earth-shaking clash

Oren notes that some initiatives for peace did in fact develop. Further, Six Days of War is an attack on "post-Zionism": the school of politics and history that casts Israel as the author of policies that intentionally promote the destuction of Palestine as a separate entity and of Palestinians as a people, not least through the occupation that began with the 1967 War. Arab policy, by contrast, featured a confident commitment to erasing Israel from the map. enmeshed in Vietnam and a West unwilling to act even in support of the statu

Logibear6Six Days of war is a well rounded account of one of the pivotal wars in the middle-east Logibear64 Oren's Six Days of war is an excellent account of the series of events from within the governments of Egypt and Israel that led to the disastrous (for the Arabs) war of 1967. Oren shows how the war began as a result of misinformation and misunderstandings by both sides. The big mystery that is yet to be solved is the motivation behind the Russian intelligence misinformation about Israeli preparations to invade Syria. Oren also does not fully provide answers about the attack on the USS Liberty except to show there was no Israeli government involvement at the highest levels. This will not be enoug. said Six Days of war is a well rounded account of one of the pivotal wars in the middle-east. Oren's Six Days of war is an excellent account of the series of events from within the governments of Egypt and Israel that led to the disastrous (for the Arabs) war of 1967. Oren shows how the war began as a result of misinformation and misunderstandings by both sides. The big mystery that is yet to be solved is the motivation behind the Russian intelligence misinformation about Israeli preparations to invade Syria. Oren also does not fully provide answers about the attack on the USS Liberty except to show there was no Israeli government involvement at the highest levels. This will not be enoug. Brilliant and mesmerizing I seldom read a book twice. I never read a book twice without some time intervening. With this book, I broke both rules. The book takes you into the heart of the war and immediately provides context. The context lets you understand why it occurred. The strategic feints and preemptive necessities that allowed the Israelis to win are explained and clarified. The risky first act of destroying the Egyptian air force is elaborated with clarity and the tension and risks are virtually palpable. The internecine conflicts in the Israeli government are set forth in a tapestry interwoven into the events an. Royce J Stilson said Informative but rather dry statistics and political backgrounding of the. Informative but rather dry statistics and political backgrounding of the Mideast players stating with Nassar; most informative was the cost to Israel in lives lost and political capital. I was surprised and saddened to learn how many of Israel's young military people had died while driving the arab invaders out of their areas. It was well that Israel gained control of Jerusalem and the wailing wall.