| Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East Library Edition Contributor(s): Oren, Michael B. (Author), Whitfield, Robert (Read by) |
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ISBN: 0786189711 ISBN-13: 9780786189717 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $31.46 Product Type: MP3 CD - Other Formats Published: June 2003 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Middle East - General |
| Dewey: 956.046 |
| Physical Information: 0.38" H x 5.36" W x 5.46" (0.19 lbs) |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 are all part of the outcome of those six days of intense Arab-Israeli fighting in the summer of 1967. Writing with a novelist's command of narrative and a historian's grasp of fact and motive, Michael B. Oren spotlights all the participants--Arab, Israeli, Soviet, and American--that were involved in this earth-shaking clash. Drawing on thousands of top-secret documents and exclusive personal interviews, he recreates the regional and international context that, by the late 1960s, virtually assured an Arab-Israeli conflagration. 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Oren, Michael B.: - Michael B. Oren is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Six Days of War and Power, Faith, and Fantasy. He received his PhD from Princeton University in Middle East studies. He was Israel's ambassador to the United States from 2009 to 2013 and has been a senior fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem and a contributing editor to New Republic. Whitfield, Robert: -Simon Vance is an award-winning actor and an AudioFile Golden Voice with over forty Earphones Awards. He has won thirteen prestigious Audie Awards and was Booklist's very first Voice of Choice in 2008. He has narrated more than eight hundred audiobooks over almost thirty years, beginning when he was a radio newsreader for the BBC in London. |