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Jeremy Bowen - Six Days (2nd Hand Paperback)
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Synopsis
Full title - Six Days: How the 1967 War Shaped the Middle East.
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.
Forty 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 history writing and as gripping as fiction, this is a deeply personal book by an author with superb media contacts.
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- Format : Standard 2nd Hand Paperback
- Condition : Good
- Category : Non-Fiction - The Rest of The World
- Published : 2003 (This Edition 2004 - Pocket Books)
- ISBN : 9780743449694
- SKU : B003114
- PPC : SP350gm
- RRP : £8.99
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
External Reviews
"Clearly well researched and provides a good understanding of the war, covering both its military and political aspects, along with all the major players involved."
"The history of the Six days war from the root causes to the consequences. A clear description of the fighting is present even if it is not a book which deals with the little details of tactics." - Google Reviews.
"The writing style is amazing. Full of personal anecdotes and weird stories that make for a compelling case against raw, known facts. The narrative is fast, colourful, it jumps around, it never lets you rest, and you feel like you're reading fiction rather than documentary on something that happened fifty years ago. But that's the beauty and the charm of Jeremy's talent. The books has roughly eight chapters - the aforementioned chapter, each of the six days of the war, and the aftermath, which we live today - the divide between the East and the West, the role of the US in the Middle-Eastern politics, and the rest of it. The war story is amazing. Not just because it's a textbook execution of a military operations. Also because it tells us the motivations of the leaders, but also often tragic, highly emotional stories of ordinary people - soldiers, refugees, women and children. There's everything you can imagine, and then some - backstabbing, mistrust, theatrics, religion, Dayan's sex life, Amer's crazy illusions, King Hussein's fatalism, how Soviets tricked themselves, the radio propaganda in Cairo, Israeli diplomatic dancing with the Johnson administration, conspiracy theories. Truly fascinating, even if you know the story. Extremely recommended - there's a bit of everything for everyone - military facts, history, personal facts, Jeremy leaves no stone unturned and no question unanswered. He gives it a closure, a symbolic meaning, and the critical connection between the past and the present." - Goodreads Review.
"Gripping . . . You emerge from the book feeling like you have been as close an observer of a war as you are ever likely to be." - Literary Review.
"Engrossing . . ." - Time Out.
The Author
Jeremy Francis John Bowen is a Welsh journalist and television presenter. He was the BBC's Middle East correspondent based in Jerusalem between 1995 and 2000 and the BBC Middle East editor from 2005 to 2022, before being appointed the International Editor of BBC News in August 2022.