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From Israel's leading historian, a sweeping history of 1967—the war, what led up to it, what came after, and exactly how it changed everything. Tom Segev's acclaimed works One Palestine, Complete along with the Seventh Million overturned accepted views of the annals of Israel. Now, in 1967—a number-one bestseller in Israel—he brings his masterful skills to the watershed year when six days of war reshaped the united states and the complete region. Going far beyond a military account, Segev re-creates the crisis in Israel before 1967, showing how economic recession, a complete grasp of the Holocaust's horrors, and the dire threats made by neighbor states combined to make a climate of apocalypse. He depicts the country's bravado following its victory, the mood revealed in a popular joke in which one soldier says to his friend, "Let's take over Cairo"; the friend replies, "Then what shall we do in the afternoon?" Drawing on unpublished letters and diaries, as well as government memos and military records, Segev reconstructs an era of new possibilities and tragic missteps. He introduces the legendary figures—Moshe Dayan, Golda Meir, Gamal Abdul Nasser, and Lyndon Johnson—and an epic cast of soldiers, lobbyists, refugees, and settlers. He reveals as nothing you've seen prior Israel's intimacy with the White House as well as the political rivalries that sabotaged any chance of peace. Above all, he challenges the view that the war was inevitable, showing a group of disastrous miscalculations lie behind the bloodshed. A vibrant and original history, 1967 is sure to stand as the definitive account of this pivotal year.
