Six Days of War
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| Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East | |
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| Author | Michael Oren |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject(s) | Six-Day War |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Publication date | 2002-04-18 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover, Paperback) |
| Pages | 480 |
| ISBN | ISBN 978-0195151749 |
| OCLC | 48551000 |
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 he asserted 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]
The book was widely praised by many reviewers, but political scientist Norman Finkelstein critiqued it in a chapter of his own book Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict (2003 revised version), challenging both the book's findings of fact and its claims of groundbreaking research, and questioning the author's objectivity.
Six Days of War has been translated into Hebrew and is available as of June 2007.
