JEREMY BOWEN

Ataques suicidas, bombardeos, asesinatos y derramamiento de sangre en Jerusalén, Gaza y la franja occidental dominan las noticias de Oriente Medio, la región más problemática de la tierra. En su centro late el conflicto entre palestinos e israelies y el legado de la guerra de los seis dias que tuvo lugar en 1967.Aquella guerra fue la genesis del actual campo de batalla. Israel sigue luchando en la tierra que arrebato en 1967: Gaza, la franja occidental y los altos del Golan. Las consecuencias de aquella semana de 1967 siguen matando, hoy.Esta obra, un ensayo riguroso y original de historia moderna tan vivido como la ficcion, no solo arroja nueva luz sobre uno de los conflictos clave del siglo XX, sino que explica muchas cosas sobre Oriente Medio y los problemas que aun hoy sigue teniendo la region.

A Spectator Book of the Year 2022A New Statesman Book of the Year 2022'An illuminating and riveting read' - Jonathan DimblebyJeremy Bowen, the International Editor of the BBC, has been covering the Middle East since 1989 and is uniquely placed to explain its complex past and its troubled present. In The Making of the Modern Middle East - in part based on his acclaimed podcast, 'Our Man in the Middle East' - Bowen takes us on a journey across the Middle East and through its history. He meets ordinary men and women on the front line, their leaders, whether brutal or benign, and he explores the power games that have so often wreaked devastation on civilian populations as those leaders, whatever their motives, jostle for political, religious and economic control.

A Sunday Times Paperback of the YearA Spectator and New Statesman Book of the YearAn illuminating and riveting read. - Jonathan DimblebyJeremy Bowen, the International Editor of the BBC, has been covering the Middle East since 1989 and is uniquely placed to explain its complex past and its troubled present. Here, Bowen offers readers a gripping and invaluable guide to the modern Middle East, how it came to be and what its future might hold.In The Making of the Modern Middle East in part based on his acclaimed podcast, Our Man in the Middle East Bowen takes us on a journey across the Middle East and through its history. He meets ordinary men and women on the front line, their leaders, whether brutal or benign, and he explores the power games that have so often wreaked devastation on civilian populations as those leaders, whatever their motives, jostle for political, religious and economic control.