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Article: Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East.
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- Infantry Magazine
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- January 1, 2005
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Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East. By Michael B, Oren. Oxford University Press, 2002. 446 pages. $30 (Hardcover). Reviewed by Lieutenant Colonel Harold E. Raugh, Jr., U.S. Army, Retired.
The single most important event to take place in the Middle East since the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 was the "Six-Day War" of 1967. This one-sided Israeli victory transformed the modern Middle East and sowed the seeds of strife that led to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, the 1973 Yom Kippur War, and the current Palestinian intifida (uprising).
Author Michael B. Oren, a former director of ...