Six Days of War June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East

Michael B. Oren9780195151749, 0195151747

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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Table of contents :
EEn
……Page 1
Front Cover
……Page 2
Back Cover
……Page 3
Copyright Info
……Page 7
TOC
……Page 10
List of Maps
……Page 11
Acknowledgments
……Page 12
A Note on Sources and Spellings
……Page 14
Foreword
……Page 16
The Context: Arabs, Israelis, and the Great Powers, 1948 to 1966
……Page 22
A Context Contrived
……Page 23
The Impossible Peace
……Page 27
Cold Wars/Hot Wars
……Page 33
The Context Redux
……Page 39
Out of the Icebox
……Page 43
The Catalysts: Samu’ to Sinai
……Page 54
Athanasius Contra Mundum
……Page 59
The Syrian Sphinx
……Page 63
Thirty Seconds over Damascus
……Page 67
Improbable Duo
……Page 70
Action and Reaction
……Page 74
The Crisis: Two Weeks in May
……Page 82
Egypt Deliberates
……Page 85
Eviction
……Page 88
Israel Waits
……Page 96
Closure
……Page 103
Rabin Waits
……Page 107
‘Amer’s “Dawn”……Page 113
Every Delay a Gamble
……Page 118
Eban Abroad
……Page 120
En Route to Regatta
……Page 124
Alone or Not Alone
……Page 127
Enter Kosygin
……Page 137
Sunset on Dawn……Page 140
Reprieve……Page 142
Countdown: May 31 to June 4
……Page 148
Eshkol’s Eclipse……Page 153
Every Possible Effort
……Page 160
Dayan ex Machina
……Page 168
Arab World Resurgent
……Page 179
The Shortest Night
……Page 185
The War: Day One, June 5: Israel’s air force strikes. The ground war begins. Jordan and Syria counterattack
……Page 191
Red Sheet over Sinai
……Page 199
The “Whip” Cracks
……Page 203
Diplomacy Stumbles
……Page 217
“The First Day’s Turkey Shoot”……Page 221
The War: Day Two, June 6: Israeli advances and Arab retreats. America on war and peace. “Big Lies” and cease-fires…….Page 232
The Charnel House
……Page 239
Damascus and Jerusalem……Page 249
Battling for Cease-Fire
……Page 254
Day Two: Denouement……Page 258
The War: Day Three, June 7: The fateful battle for Jerusalem. Egypt’s “Curtain” torn. Soviet threats and American brainstorming…….Page 261
“The Curtain” Falls
……Page 268
Brave New Worlds
……Page 273
The War: Day Four, June 8: Israeli coups de grâce. A fatal accident. Nasser capitulates and the Syrians wait…….Page 278
The Golan Looms
……Page 281
Anatomy of an Accident
……Page 283
A Four-Day War?
……Page 292
The War: Day Five, June 9: Showdown atop the Golan. Nasser attempts to resign. The UN resurgent and the Soviets riled. Israel’s constitutional crisis…….Page 299
Between Hammer and Pincer……Page 301
Curtain Call
……Page 305
“Imperialist Pressures”……Page 310
The War: Day Six, June 10: The Golan vanquished. Furtive maneuvers at the UN. Superpower saber-rattling. Visions of impending peace.
……Page 315
Crisis and Credibility
……Page 316
Playing for the Brink
……Page 321
Aftershocks: Tallies, Postmortems, and the Old/New Middle East
……Page 326
“A Peace of Honor Between Equals”
……Page 333
Three No’s or Three Yeses?
……Page 338
242: Legacy and Reality……Page 344
Photos
……Page 349
The Context
……Page 365
The Catalysts
……Page 373
The Crisis
……Page 381
Countdown
……Page 397
The War: Day One, June 5
……Page 407
Day Two, June 6
……Page 415
Day Three, June 7
……Page 421
Day Four, June 8
……Page 424
Day Five, June 9
……Page 428
Day Six, June 10
……Page 431
Aftershocks
……Page 433
Archives
……Page 439
Oral History Interviews
……Page 440
Books in English, French, and Spanish
……Page 442
Articles in English
……Page 449
Books in Hebrew
……Page 450
Articles in Hebrew
……Page 452
Books and Articles in Arabic
……Page 453
Books and Articles in Russian
……Page 455
Internet Sites
……Page 456
Index
……Page 457