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.

虽然它只在6月持续了6天的紧张时间，但1967年的阿以战争从未真正结束。在随后的几十年里，从1973年的赎罪日战争到正在进行的起义，贯穿这一地区的每一场危机都是那六天战斗的直接后果。迈克尔-奥伦(Michael B. Oren)的《战争的六天》(Six Days of War)是一本受到国际赞誉的畅销书，是对这一划时代事件的首次全面描述。奥伦以小说家的叙事技巧和历史学家对事实和动机的把握，重建了战场上快如闪电的行动和令世界震惊的政治冲击。非凡的人物--摩西-达扬和贾迈勒-阿卜杜勒-纳赛尔、林登-约翰逊和阿列克谢-柯西金--由于这场战争而崛起或倒台；边界被重新划定；大胆的战略在几个小时内辉煌地成功或灾难性地失败。中东和世界的权力平衡也发生了变化。战争六天》是一部高大的历史作品，也是一部令人着迷的人文叙事，是一代人中关于中东冲突的最重要著作。