Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Israel: poor little Samson Avi Shlaim; 2. Egypt: dangerous illusions Laura M. James; 3. Syria: playing with fire David Lesch; 4. Jordan: walking the tight rope Avi Shlaim; 5. The Palestinian national movement Wendy Pearlman; 6. The Yemen war and Egypt's war preparedness in June 1967 Eugene Rogan and Tewfik Aclimandos; 7. The United States and the 1967 war Charles D. Smith; 8. The Soviet Union: the roots of war and a reassessment of historiography Rami Ginat; 9. Britain: the ghost of Suez and resolution 242 Wm. Roger Louis; 10. France and the June 1967 war Jean-Pierre Filiu; 11. The 1967 war and the demise of Arab nationalism: chronicle of a death foretold Rashid Khalidi; 12. The transformation of Arab politics: disentangling myth from reality Fawaz A. Gerges.

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Two veteran scholars of the Middle East bring together experts in their fields to reassess the June 1967 Arab-Israeli war.

About the Author

Wm Roger Louis is the Kerr Chair in English History and Culture at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the editor-in-chief of The Oxford History of the British Empire (5 volumes, 1999), A Revolutionary Year: The Middle East in 1958 (co-edited with Roger Owen, 2002), Ends of British Imperialism: The Scramble for Empire, Suez, and Decolonization (2006) and editor of Burnt Orange Britannia: Adventures in History and the Arts (2006). Avi Shlaim is a Fellow at St Antony's College and Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford. He is the author of many books, including The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World (2001), The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948, Second Edition (2007), Lion of Jordan: King Hussein's Life in War and Peace (2007) and Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations (2009).