Six Days: How the 1967 War Shaped the Middle East - Couverture souple

Bowen, Jeremy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 074344969X ISBN 13 : 9780743449694

Editeur : Simon & Schuster, 2004

Synopsis

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 history writing and as gripping as fiction, this is a major debut by an author with superb media contacts.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

'Fine research... impeccably accurate... Jeremy Bowen has performed a service by reminding us how we got here. In the true traditions of journalism, he has done his best to tell us exactly how it happened'. Simon Louvish, Guardian
'Bowen provides an hour-by-hour narrative of the war, which is surely the most gripping military tale since the fall of France in the Second World War' Alan Philps, TELEGRAPH
'Gripping . . . You emerge from the book feeling you have been as close an observer of a war as you are ever likely to be.' Gerald Butt, LITERARY REVIEW
Unflinching...Bowen's straightforward style is backed up by meticulous research... with Bowen's wide research lending both balance and authority to his conclusions' CATHOLIC TIMES
'Bowen writes with a journalist's verve' David Goldberg, Jewish Chronicle
'Fascinating' Andrew Harvey, Ariel
'Jeremy Bowen . . . tells the story as it deserves to be told: as a thriller, the more compelling for being true . . . Bowen writes like a television reporter talks - succinctly, precisely, unsentimentally - but the style and structure allow him to pile cliff-hanger upon cliff-hanger. Even though we know how it ends, it is gripping stuff, full of meticulously disinterred detail and acutely sketched personalities . . . timely and engrossing' Andrew Mueller, TIME OUT
'[Bowen] reveals a compelling yarn behind the myths . . . Perhaps SIX DAYS can help us both remember and heal' Lawrence Joffe, INDEPENDENT
'Jeremy Bowen is a war reporter for whom contentment begins when bullets fly . . . Bowen knows the Middle East. For five years he was the BBC's main correspondent there . . . That kind of experience has taught him that simple judgments of right and wrong, good and evil, are never possible . . . Bowen tells the story of the war with an hour-by-hour account of each of the six days. What comes across is a sense of tragic inevitability'
Gerard DeGroot, Scotland on Sunday
'A splendidly woven story book . . . Although [Bowen] is an admirably dispassionate and meticulous historian, he is an even better story teller . . . This is a piece of humane and honest writing which should be on the shelves of anyone with a serious interest in the conflict, and on the bedside table of anyone who wants a great, fast read' CONTEMPORARY REVIEW
'A readable and vivid account' BRITISH ARMY REVIEW
‘Bowen's meticulous account, a mosaic of private stories, control room debates and battlefield vignettes, makes a convincing case’
Sunday Times 22/08

Biographie de l'auteur :

Jeremy Bowen is a senior correspondent for the BBC, and reported from Jerusalem for seven years. Until recently he was the co-presenter of the BBC's Breakfast News programme. This is his first book.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 074344969X
• ISBN 13: 9780743449694
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 432