Jerusalem

THE 1967 SIX DAY WAR has spawned hundreds of books, perhaps most importantly Michael Oren’s bestselling Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East.

The war’s 40th anniversary commences on June 5th and Oren has continued tracking its importance. He explains now that it, “Not only created the modern Middle East as we know it today, but changed Arab society and politics profoundly. . . . It sounded the death knell for secular Arab nationalism and the man who embodied that idea, former President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser, by opening the door to the ascendance of a new idiom in Islamic radicalism.”