<p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>A towering work of history and an enthralling human narrative <em>Six Days of War</em> is the most important book on the Middle East conflict to appear in a generation.</p>