{"product_id":"9780345461926-secondhand-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":"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","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49079258349787,"sku":"9780345461926-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/cd5a3f35-99f3-43bc-a760-facc44222424.jpg?v=1786117640","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780345461926-secondhand-six-days-of-war-june-1967-and-the-making-of-the-modern-middle-east","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}