American Conservative University Podcast

Part 2 of 2.  Six Days of War. This audio excerpt serves as an introduction to this fine book. Purchase the entire book on Amazon/Audible This is an ACU encore presentation.   Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East Paperback – June 3, 2003 by Michael B. Oren  NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The first comprehensive account of the epoch-making Six-Day War, from the author of Ally—now featuring a fiftieth-anniversary retrospective 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. Writing with a novelist’s command of narrative and a historian’s grasp of fact and motive, Michael B. 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 N