"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." "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."--BOOK JACKET.

"A Presidio Press book"--T.p. verso.

The context : Arabs, Israelis, and the great powers, 1948 to 1966 -- The catalysts : Samu° to Sinai -- The crisis : two weeks in May -- Countdown : May 31 to June 4 -- The war : Day one, June 5 -- Day two, June 6 -- Day three, June 7 -- Day four, June 8 -- Day five, June 9 -- Day six, June 10 -- Aftershocks : tallies, postmortems, and the old/new Middle East -- Afterword -- A conversation with Michael B. Oren.