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Home > The Six-Day War and the Search for Peace > Six-Day War Suggested References

Websites

A UK-based site specializing in documenting the personal history of the Six-day war: http://www.sixdaywar.co.uk

The Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs background on the Six-Day War providing in-depth documentation and descriptions of events and speeches: http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Foreign+Relations/Israels+Foreign+Relations+since+1947/1947-1974/THE+SIX-DAY+WAR+-+INTRODUCTION.htm (http://www.mfa.gov.il)

For documents and information related to U.S. diplomacy and foreign relations during the Arab-Israeli conflict 1964-1968, please see the U.S. Department of State's related site published by its Office of the Historian: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/johnsonlb/xix/

For background on why Israel entered the West Bank: Beyond Images, http://www.beyondimages.info/b103.html

For the Jewish Virtual Library's detailed background on the Six-Day War and maps: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/67_War.html

For the original text of United Nations and conference resolutions mentioned in this document: Yale Law School's Avalon Project, http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/mideast/mideast.htm#1960

Books

Michael Oren, Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of Modern Middle East, New York: Oxford University Press, 2002
- For the summary of a speech given by Oren about the Six-Day War: http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/print.php?template=C05&CID=2080

Abba Eban, Abba Eban: An Autobiography. Random House. ISBN 0-394-49302-8

Chaim Herzog, The Arab-Israeli Wars, Tel Aviv, Steimatsky Ltd., 1985

Martin Gilbert, The Arab-Israeli Conflict, Its History in Maps, Tel Aviv, Steimatsky Ltd., 1988

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