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"In Israel and the West it is called the Six-Day War. 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.
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: all are part of the outcome of those six days of intense Arab-Israeli fighting in the summer of 1967.".
"Drawing on thousands of top-secret documents, on rare papers in Russian and Arabic, and on exclusive personal interviews, Six Days of War recreates the regional and international context which, by the late 1960s, virtually assured an Arab-Israeli conflagration.
Also examined are the domestic crises in each of the battling states, and the extraordinary personalities - Moshe Dayan and Gamal Abdul Nasser, Hafez al-Assad and Yitzhak Rabin, Lyndon Johnson and Alexei Kosygin - that precipitated this earthshaking clash."--BOOK JACKET.
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Israel-Arab War, Guerra Árabe-Israelí, Arabisch-Israëlisch conflict, Sechstagekrieg, Auswirkung, Zesdaagse Oorlog, Politics and government, Guerra dos seis dias, Arab-Israeli conflict, History of Middle east, Israel-arab war, 1967, Middle east, history, 20th century, Israel-Arab War (1967) fast (OCoLC)fst00980283, New York Times reviewed, HistoryTimes
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Six days of war: June 1967 and the making of the modern Middle East
2004, Rosetta
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Six days of war: June 1967 and the making of the modern Middle East
2003, Ballantine Books
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Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
April 18, 2002, Oxford University Press, USA
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"NIGHTTIME, DECEMBER 31, 1964-A squad of Palestinian guerrillas crosses from Lebanon into northern Israel."
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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. Michael B. Oren’s magnificent Six Days of War, an internationally acclaimed bestseller, is the first comprehensive account of this epoch-making event.
Writing with a novelist’s command of narrative and a historian’s grasp of fact and motive, 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.
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