Six Days of War: How the 1967 Conflict Shaped the Modern Middle East

Tzion: Excellent!

United States on Jan 15, 2024

David J. Guilliams: Great information

United States on Dec 18, 2023

Tipperaryman: This book is written by a historian who has a Ph. D from Princeton University and his professorships have been similarly prestigious, and he was living and teaching in Israel. I just started reading this book and it is the best book I have read ( I have read at least 3 others on the history of Israel) so far specifically focused on the history of war fare in Israel. It covers a survey of the history of the creation of Israel and relevant historical context of Israel’s neighbors in the Middle East before getting into a thoughtful and comprehensive history of the Six day war. Looking forward to reading more and so glad I found and bought this history book. Highly recommend it based on what I have read so far. I will be seeking other books by this author.

United States on Oct 06, 2023

Noel Ashby: Great historical account of a defining middle eastern conflict in modern history.

Australia on Sep 04, 2023

A. J. MATHIAS : This book is meant for only those who knows a little bit of history of Israel. Scholarly written and extensively researched..
A very good reference book for those who pursue middle east and it's violent history.

India on Jan 14, 2023

Marcia lacelle: Love all my biblical books

Canada on Apr 20, 2022

Mª del Carmen Echevarría Santamaría: This book analizes the war from every point of view and you can see how the path to war is being constructed step by step. The book despite his lenght is readable and becomes highly addictive!

Spain on Jul 19, 2017

Hanniel: Eine Aufarbeitung mit neuem Quellenmaterial aller direkt und indirekt Beteiligten

30 Jahre nach dem entscheidenden Krieg im Nahen Osten machte sich der israelische Historiker und spätere Botschafter Israels in den Vereinigten Staaten (2009-2013) daran, den Konflikt mit einer Rundum-Perspektive und dem Vorteil eines gewissen zeitlichen Abstands aufzuarbeiten. Nicht dass es vorher an Darstellungen und Dokumentationen gefehlt hätte - im Gegenteil. Befehlsausgaben der kriegsführenden Länder sowie der Rückgriff auf amerikanische, russische, europäische und arabische Quellen (Befehlsausgaben, Berichte, Interviews, Zeitungsberichte, Memoiren etc.) sollen für eine ausgewogene Darstellung sorgen. Ich war erst etwas skeptisch, ob dies einem Israeli, der zudem noch als Politiker aktiv ist, gelingen sollte. Dieser nimmt für sich in Anspruch, seine Vorurteile und seinen Standpunkt in den Hintergrund stellen zu können. Tatsächlich wird in den Darstellungen stets reihum auf die verschiedenen Positionen, Perspektiven und Ausgangslagen Bezug genommen. Trotz allem ging es nicht lange (das mag an meinem eigenen Standpunkt liegen), dass ich Partei für die israelische...

Germany on May 10, 2016

Craig MACKINNON: At first I was skeptical about this book. It's hard enough to get a balanced account of a battle without it skewing towards the victor, but then I heard the author is Jewish and he now lives in Israel (although he is of American descent). My thoughts were, how balanced can this account be? My fears were assuaged by the editorial reviews, and having read the book I can verify that it is as fair and balanced as possible, given the limitations placed on the author: namely, the lack of information forthcoming from the regimes that were on the losing side. I suppose this is understandable in the context of those governments - democracies like Israel (and the U.S.) declassify documents much sooner than other types of governments. This is further exacerbated by the fact that the leaderships of the losing countries are still in place - the Ba'ath Party in Syria, the industrio-military complex of Egypt, and the Hussein monarchy in Jordan.

So, given that the account is scholarly and balanced, how does the book read? I was pleased to note that the author, Michael Oren, is an accomplished storyteller and the book mostly reads with all the spice and excitement of...

United States on Dec 25, 2006

Omer Belsky: Michael Oren has written a captivating account of the diplomatic, political, and biographical circumstances around the war the Israelis call 'The Six Day War' and the Arabs know as 'The June War'. As the glowing reviews, on Amazon.Com and elsewhere suggest, this is a captivating, well researched book, that will almost certainly be known as a classic.
After an introduction which traces the Israeli-Arab conflict to the 1960s, Oren starts unrolling the events that lead to the outbreak of the war - namely, the boarder clashes between Israel and Syria, the attacks by Palestinian Militants (or terrorists, or revolutionaries, take your pick), and the counter attacks (or raids, or Imperialistic demonstrations of power) by Israelis.
The crisis took an escalation with the evacuation of the United Nation Emergency Force from Egypt, thus closing Israel's red sea port, and the movement of Egyptian forces into the Sinai desert.
Oren's description of the political forces at work, going back and force from Jerusalem, Cairo, Damascus, Moscow and Washington DC (with stops at Amman, Paris and the UN headquarters in New York City), is nothing short of masterful. He...

United States on Aug 29, 2003