Six Days of War (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Michael B. Oren
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: 1967
- Setting: The Middle East
- Principal Characters: Levi Eshkol, Moshe Dayan, Abba Eban, Yitzhak Rabin, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Hussein I, Hafez al-Assad
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: 1960’s, Twentieth century, Jews or Jewish life, War, Nationalism, Revenge, Egypt or Egyptians, Guerrillas or guerrilla warfare, Israel or Israelis, Middle East, Jewish-Arab relations, Palestinian Arabs, Arabs
- Locales: Middle East
The best histories illuminate the limits of the human condition. The record of the past is the best guide to humanity’s paradoxical capacity for both greatness and degradation. Some histories read as farce, others as tragedy. A few histories manage to do both. Michael Oren’s Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East possesses this elusive distinction. Oren’s book is a substantial achievement. Its scholarship is impeccable; its implicit commentary on the human face of the Middle Eastern crisis is sobering.
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