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MuzeFormatDesc: Compact Disc
ISBN-10: 1400134943
ISBN-13: 9781400134946
Jul 2007
Publisher: Tantor Media Inc
Unabridged
Language: English |
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Synopsis
In a prodigiously researched and detailed account, Israeli historian Tom Segev recounts the fateful events that, in a very short but utterly decisive span of time, forever changed the landscape of the Middle East, as Israel went to war with its Arab neighbors in the shadow of the superpower rivalry between the United Sates and the Soviet Union. Segev paints a portrait of a troubled and insecure Israeli society, torn by internal strife and uncertain about its future--or even its future existence. He portrays the key Israeli and Arab leaders, tells of the unfortunate duplicity and mistakes on both sides that precipitated the conflict, and describes the overwhelming defeat of the Arab armies. Much of the information is based on the perspectives of Israel's citizen soldiers, who kept diaries and memoirs, and who sat for interviews. He also includes revealing accounts of actions by the Americans and the Russians, especially Lyndon Johnson and Henry Kissinger. After the short war was over and Israel had won an overwhelming victory, Segev shows how postwar peace initiatives soon gave way to intransigency and the long and painful (for both sides) occupation. Segev's rich and accessible history recalls a past time that still, after several decades, affects the present.
| Size | | Height: | 7.0 in | | Width: | 6.8 in | | Thickness: | 1.8 in | | Weight: | 22.4 oz |
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