Six Days of War

Six Days of War

Infobox Book
name = Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East


image_caption = First edition cover
author = Michael Oren
illustrator =
cover_artist =
country = United States
language = English
series =
subject = Six-Day War
publisher = Oxford University Press
pub_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. [cite news|work = The New York Times|title = BEST SELLERS: August 18, 2002|date = 2002-08-18|accessdate = 2008-03-26|url = http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E01E0D8163AF93BA2575BC0A9649C8B63]

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. [cite web|publisher = Oxford University Press|title = Oxford University Press: Six Days of War: Michael B. Oren|date = 2007-06-11|url = http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/HistoryWorld/MiddleEastern/~~/dmlldz11c2EmY2k9OTc4MDE5NTE1MTc0OQ=|accessdate = 2007-07-02]

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.

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