Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
by Michael B. Oren
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Author: Michael B. OrenEdition: Paperback
Published: 2003-06-03
ISBN: 0345461924
Number of pages: 480
Publisher: Presidio Press
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Book Review: Very In-Depth - Covers All Aspects of Six-Day War
Summary: 5 Stars
Oren begins by looking at the context surrounding the Six-Day War. He looks at Palestinian terror attacks in Israel and their Syrian support, the plight of hundreds of thousands of displaced and angry Palestinians (from the 1948 war), Israel's eternal belief that it is both invincible and weak, the fighting between King Hussein, Nasser, and Syria's divided leadership and how it led to a need to turn the attention on a unifying foe (Israel), Arab disunity, etc. Looking at all these things and many more, Oren seeks to explain how the Arabs and Israelis stumbled into the Six-Day War. I thought this part was fascinating for the most part; Oren really touches every aspect in an attempt to explain the war's "context and causes." If anything, however, I thought he touched on too many things, as this part of the book lingered on for a while (roughly 150 pages).
For the remainder of the book, Oren writes one chapter per day of fighting (plus an "Aftershocks" conclusion). These pages are brilliantly written with such fine detail. Oren really did his research. He quotes people during and after battle, results of government-done studies, prior-classified documents, etc. The level of detail is AMAZING. He looks at the states of mind of military commanders, their ambitions and goals, inter-goverment rivalries, etc (for both the Israelis and the Arabs).
When reading books on this part of the world, bias is an important thing to note (as it should color your acceptance of their work and opinions). Oren is definitely biased toward the Israelis (I believe, after all, that he is Israeli). That said, I would consider him only slightly-to-moderately biased; he retains a good deal of objectivity and portrays some Israelis in a negative or objective light.
This is a fantastic book for serious students of the Middle East or those interested in military history. It details maneuvers, tactics and strategies, etc of the military campaign - very interesting. Also, for a war book, there is very little description of gore (if you cannot watch the first 30 minutes of Saving Private Ryan, you can still read this book).
All in all, this is an excellent book and I recommend it highly.
Summary of Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
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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