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Article: Fighting for Peace - Change as well as continuity best describes the conflict between Israel and its Arab enemies.(Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East)(Book Review)
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- The World and I
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- September 1, 2002
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Edward S. Shapiro is professor of history emeritus at Seton Hall University. His review of David Halberstam's War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals appeared in the February 2002 issue of The World & I.
Book Info:SIX DAYS OF WAR
June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Michael B. Oren
Publisher:New York: Oxford University Press, 2002
446 pp., $30.00
Michael Oren, an American-born historian who settled in Israel in 1979 and then earned a Ph.D. in Middle Eastern studies from Princeton in 1985, has written the latest and best study of the Six-Day War of June 1967. This is Oren's second book on the Middle Eastern wars, and it ...