Six Days of War is a comprehensive and gripping account of the epoch-making 1967 Arab-Israeli war, written by Michael B.

Oren with a novelist's command of narrative and a historian's grasp of fact and motive.

This book reconstructs both the lightning-fast action on the battlefields and the political shocks that electrified the world, featuring extraordinary personalities such as Moshe Dayan and Gamal Abdul Nasser, Lyndon Johnson and Alexei Kosygin.

The balance of power changed in the Middle East and the world after this war, with borders redrawn and daring strategies brilliantly succeeding or disastrously failing in a matter of hours.

This towering work of history and enthralling human narrative is the most important book on the Middle East conflict to appear in a generation, offering a seamless narrative out of a staggering variety of diplomatic and military strands.

With a remarkably assured style, Oren elucidates nearly every aspect of the conflict, making this book an authoritative chronicle that is likely to remain the best on the subject.