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Six Days - How the 1967 War Shaped the Middle East (Paperback, New ed)
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Six Days - How the 1967 War Shaped the Middle East (Paperback, New ed)
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The Six-Day War was an extraordinary human drama. It swept up a
generation of Israelis and Arabs whose children still cannot live
peacefully in the world the war created. Today, Israel is the
superpower of the region. It has nuclear weapons but has never been
able to digest the land it swallowed in 1967. However big its army,
it will never be at peace or feel secure until the future of this
land is settled. Thirty-six years after the end of the six days of
fighting, after thousands more deaths and the failure of years of
negotiation to try to reach a political settlement, Israelis and
Palestinians are fighting once again on the streets in the West
Bank and Gaza. It is still a low-level conflict, but if another
full-blown Middle East war breaks out, its roots will lie in those
six days in June 1967. Drawing on his experiences as the BBC's
former Middle East correspondent, and building on extensive
original research and interviews with some of the key participants,
Jeremy Bowen uses his vast array of contacts to weave together a
completely convincing and compelling account, hour by hour, of the
1967 war between Israel and Egypt, Jordan and Syria. As insightful
as the best modern hist
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