abstract:Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East is a 2002 non-fiction book by American-born Israeli historian and future Israeli ambassador to the United States, 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.
The moves followed the biggestmilitaryoffensiveagainstGazasince the 1967 war and one ofthe bloodiestdaysforthePalestiniansin more than six decadesofconflictwithIsrael.
On the afternoon of March 26th, just sixdays into the war, he stood on the outskirts of Najaf with Rick Atkinson, the journalist and military historian, and observed combat involving irregular Iraqi fedayeen forces.