Michael B. Oren. June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East.

Painstakingly researched and scrupulously fair, Oren's strength is dealing with the causes and effects of the war.

Oren shows how the war began as a result of misinformation and misunderstandings by both sides.

Michael B. Oren's Six Days of War is probably the most comprehensive book published on Israel's 1967 conflict with the Arab world to date. In the Arab world, it is known as the June War, or simply as "the Setback."

Prior to the start of the war, attacks conducted against Israel by fledgling Palestinian... Main events of the war. Aftermath and legacy. Six-Day War Background and escalation. Never has a conflict so short, unforeseen and largely unwanted by …

Oren's Six Days of war is an excellent account of the series of events from within the governments of Egypt and Israel that led to the disastrous (for the Arabs) war of 1967.

Description. In Israel and the West it is called the Six Day War.