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Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East is a 2002 non-fiction book by American-Israeli historian Michael Oren, chronicling the events of the Six-Day War fought between Israel and its Arab neighbors. Widely praised by critics, the book won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for history and spent seven weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list.[1] While researching the book, Oren utilized primary sources from Israel, the Arab world, the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, much of which had only recently become available to scholars. Citing the breadth and depth of Oren's research and the lucidity of his writing, several reviews, including those of National Public Radio, Washington Post Book World, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Chicago Sun-Times, described the book as the definitive account of the conflict.[2] Six Days of War has been translated into Hebrew and is available as of June 2007.
[edit] Causes of the warOren emphasizes that war was intended by neither side, rather, as with World War I, war resulted from an escalating series of events, some of them purely accidental. For example, in In November 1966 three Israeli policemen were murdered by Palestinian terrorists based in Jordan. For unexplained reasons, the the usually efficient American ambassador to Israel allowed several days to pass before transmitting a condolence message from Jordan's King Hussein to Israel's prime minister. The absence of a condolence message prompted Israel to retaliate, and that retaliation became one of the series of episodes that led to war.[3] [edit] Why Israel WonOren answers that Israelis worked hard, planning meticulously for the possibility of war with an army that drilled diligently. By contrast, one Syrian general predicted total defeat of Israel in four days "at most." President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt insisted that the Israeli Air Force was incapable of attacking Egyptian air bases - in fact the successful Israeli attack on Egyptian air fields was a key factor in Israeli victory. One Egyptian official described his county's leadership as believing that "the destruction of Israel was a child's game that only required the hooking up of a few telephone lines at the commander's house and the writing of victory slogans."[4] [edit] ReceptionThe book was widely praised by critics and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History. It spent seven weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. The New York Times Book Review wrote positively of Six Days of War, as did the Washington Post which calls it "not only the best book so far written on the Six Day War, it is likely to remain the best." Positive reviews have been published by the Atlantic Monthly, the New Republic, Newsweek International, [5] The Economist, and by noted historian John Keegan and noted Israeli New Historian Benny Morris. Norman Finkelstein wrote a critical review, calling Six Days of War an "apologetic narrative" in which Oren "basically reiterates the official Israeli version of the June war" and "frequently descends to vulgar propaganda."[6] [edit] References
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