Six Days of War

<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>