518 • Bibliographie EssayBooks on the Ba'th include Raymond A. Hinnebusch, Authoritarian Power and
State Formation in Ba'thist Syria (Boulder: Westview Press, 1990); Robert W. Ol¬
son, The Bath and Syria, 1947 to 1982 (Princeton: Kingston Press, 1982). See also,
http://i-cias.eom/e.o/baath.htm (an entry from The Encyclopedia of the Orient),
which also has useful entries for other aspects of the modern Middle East).
On the events leading up to the June 1967 war, see Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, éd.,
The Arab-Israeli Confrontation of June 1967: An Arab Perspective (Evanston, IL:
Northwestern University Press, 1970); Walter Laqueur, The Road to Jerusalem
(New York: Macmillan, 1968); and Kennett Love, Suez: The Twice-Fought War
(New York and Toronto: McGraw-Hill, 1969). U Thant's memoirs, published
posthumously in 1978, try to shift some of the blame from himself to Nasir; but
those of the UNEF commander, Major General Indar Jit Rickye, The Sinai Blun¬
der (London: Frank Cass, 1980), serve as a corrective. Several pro-Israel Web sites
give a background to the war, for example, http://www.palestinefacts.org/
pf_l 948to 1967_sixday_backgd.php.CHAPTER I8Because Israel made more facilities available to foreign journalists than Arab
countries did, we have far more literature on Israel's version of the June 1967 war.
Start with Eric M. Hammel's Six Days in June: How Israel Won the 1967 Arab-
Israeli War (New York: Scribner's, 1992), which tilts toward Israel but also covers
Arab leaders and their armed forces. Pro-Israel but scholarly is Michael Oren's Six
Days of War: June 1967 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002); but students
may prefer Jeremy Bowen's Six Days: How the 1967 War Shaped the Middle East
(London & New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003); or a detailed pro-Israel Web site
such as, http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/1967toc.html. Jor¬
dan's role is described by two journalists who interviewed King Husayn (Vick
Vance and Pierre Lauer), in My "War" with Israel, trans. J. P. Wilson and W. B.
Michaels (New York: Morrow; London: Own, 1969).
A general sense of the Arabs' reaction to the war can be gleaned from Halim
Barakat's novel Days of Dust, trans. Trevor Le Gassick (Wilmette, IL: Medina Uni¬
versity Press International, 1974). A pro-Israel and anti-Soviet account of this
period is Walter Z. Laqueur's The Struggle for the Middle East, rev. ed. (New York:
Macmillan, 1972). Soviet policies are analyzed in Michael Confino and Shimon
Shamir, eds., The USSR and the Middle East (Jerusalem: Israel Universities Press,
1973). The pro-Israeli policy of the US during and after the 1967 war is criticized
in Maxime Rodinson, Israel and the Arabs, trans. Michael Perl (New York: Pan¬
theon, 1968); Hisham Sharabi, Palestine and Israel: The Lethal Dilemma (New
York: Pegasus Press, 1969); and David Waines, The Unholy War: Israel and Pales¬
tine, 1897-1971 (Wilmette, IL: Medina University Press International, 1971). Per-