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The Six-Day War Guy Laron

The Six-Day War By Guy Laron

The Six-Day War by Guy Laron

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The Six-Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East by Guy Laron

An enthralling, big-picture history that examines the Six-Day War, its causes, and its enduring consequences against its global context

One fateful week in June 1967 redrew the map of the Middle East. Many scholars have documented how the Six-Day War unfolded, but little has been done to explain why the conflict happened at all. As we approach its fiftieth anniversary, Guy Laron refutes the widely accepted belief that the war was merely the result of regional friction, revealing the crucial roles played by American and Soviet policies in the face of an encroaching global economic crisis, and restoring Syrias often overlooked centrality to events leading up to the hostilities.

The Six-Day War effectively sowed the seeds for the downfall of Arab nationalism, the growth of Islamic extremism, and the animosity between Jews and Palestinians. In this important new work, Larons fresh interdisciplinary perspective and extensive archival research offer a significant reassessment of a conflictand the trigger-happy generals behind itthat continues to shape the modern world.

The Six-Day War Reviews

"In this fine work, Guy Laron, a young historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, takes a fresh look at the war and its causes. . . . Like all the best history, Larons book is studded with fascinating facts and anecdotes that shed light on his theories."Michael Sheridan, Sunday Times



"With the occupation now in ripe middle age, an engaging crop of new books is reexamining its consequences and, in the case of Guy Larons The Six Day War, making us look afresh at the events that led to conflict between Israel and its neighbours. Laron, a historian at Jerusalems Hebrew University, argues that the war was no accident; rather, it was 'designed and even desired by prominent military figures in the warring countries.'"John Reed, Financial Times

"For Laron, there are no simple binaries. . . . Larons critical approach echoes that of Segev, while his diligent and eye-opening archival work complements that undertaken by Oren. He describes the war from a number of different perspectives, and places it in a global context . . . he paints a comprehensive and captivating picture of a complex reality."Ari Shavit, Times Literary Supplement


"Israel today has a raft of 'post-Zionist' academics and journalists for whom everything the country has done is a standing moral reproach. Writing more in sorrow than in anger, Guy Laron takes a different approach, examining how and why the war occurred at all."David Pryce-Jones, Literary Review



A finely balanced account that puts the politics back into the study of the origins of the June 1967 War. Outstanding scholarshipthis new book confirms Laron as a leading authority on the Arab-Israeli conflict.Eugene Rogan, author of The Arabs: A History

"This timely and riveting work, drawing upon new archival materials from all the warring sides as well as US, Soviet, and Warsaw-Pact sources, provides a meticulously detailed political and military narrative along with a perceptive analysis of the origins, course, and outcome of the conflict that changed the Middle East and world politics."Carole Fink, author ofDefending the Rights of OthersandCold War: An International History

"Laron uses sources no one else hasand challenges all those who would understand these events as confined to its Middle Eastern context.Fifty years after the outbreak of the June 1967 war and there is finally someone with something new to say about it."Robert Vitalis, author ofWhite World Order, Black Power Politics

"A new and exciting interpretation of the war that broke the Middle East, with the Soviet and Cold War aspects covered in full for the first time. A very valuable corrective to the existing literature."Odd Arne Westad, Harvard University, author ofThe Cold War: AWorld History

About Guy Laron

Guy Laron is senior lecturer in international relations, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and has been a visiting scholar at the University of Maryland, Northwestern University, and Oxford. He is the author of Origins of the Suez Crisis and lives in Tel Aviv, Israel.

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GOR011494822
9780300234558
0300234554
The Six-Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East by Guy Laron
Guy Laron
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Yale University Press
2018-04-24
384
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