CIE has compiled the following list of books and articles, including some available on our website, to guide understanding of the unfolding of the June 1967 Middle East war and its consequences.

Books

Bar-On, Mordechai, ed. Six Days — and Forty Years: The June 1967 War and Its Aftermath. Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 2017.

Bashan, Refaʼel, and Ohad Zemorah. The Victory: The Six-Day War of 1967. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1968.

Bowen, Jeremy. Six Days: How the 1967 War Shaped the Middle East. New York: Thomas Dunne, 2005.

Brecher, Michael, and Benjamin Geist. Decisions in Crisis: Israel, 1967 and 1973. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980.

Center for Israel Education, Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Pre-State to 1973, on-demand course, 2024.

Center for Israel Education, The June 1967 War: How It Changed Jewish, Israeli and Middle Eastern History, leaders guide and participant booklet, 2017.

Churchill, Randolph S., and Winston Churchill. The Six Day War. CB Creative Books, 2014.

Dishon, Daniel. Middle East Record, 1967, Transaction Books, 1967.

Donovan, Robert J. Six Days in June: Israel’s Fight for Survival. New York: New American Library, 1967.

Dunstan, Simon, and Peter Dennis. The Six Day War 1967: Jordan and Syria. Oxford: Osprey, 2009.

Dunstan, Simon, and Peter Dennis. The Six Day War, 1967: Sinai. Oxford: Osprey, 2009.

Ferris, Jesse. Nasser’s Gamble: How Intervention in Yemen Caused the Six-Day War and the Decline of Egyptian Power. Princeton: Princeton University, 2015.

Gawrych, George W. The Albatross of Decisive Victory: War and Policy Between Egypt and Israel in the 1967 and 1973 Arab-Israeli Wars. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000.

Ginor, Isabella, and Gideon Remez. Foxbats Over Dimona: The Soviets’ Nuclear Gamble in the Six-Day War. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008.

Ginor, Isabella, and Gideon Remez. The Soviet-Israeli War, 1967-1973: The USSR’s Military Intervention in the Egyptian-Israeli Conflict. London: Hurst, 2017.

Gluska, Ami. The Israeli Military and the Origins of the 1967 War: Government, Armed Forces and Defence Policy 1963-1967, Middle Eastern Military Studies. Milton Park, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2006.

Halevi, Yossi Klein. Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation. New York: Harper Collins, 2014.

Hammel, Eric M. Six Days in June: How Israel Won the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. Pacifica, CA: Pacifica Military History, 1992.

Hay, Jeff. The Arab-Israeli Six-Day War. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2013.

Laron, Guy. The Six-Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2017.

Oren, Michael B. Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

McNamara, Robert. Britain, Nasser and the Balance of Power in the Middle East, 1952-1967: From the Egyptian Revolution to the Six-Day War. London: Frank Cass, 2003.

Mutawi, Samir A. Jordan in the 1967 War. Cambridge, 1987.

Pressfield, Steven. The Lion’s Gate: On the Front Lines of the Six Day War. New York: Sentinel, 2015.

Ram, Uri. Israeli Sociology and the Legacy of the Six-Day War. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

Rikhye, Indar Jit. The Sinai Blunder: Withdrawal of the United Nations Emergency Force Leading to the Six-Day War of June 1967. London: Cass, 1980.

Ro’i, Yaacov, and Boris Morozov. The Soviet Union and the June 1967 Six Day War. Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2008.

Safran, Nadav. From War to War: The Arab-Israeli Confrontation, 1948-1967. New York: Pegasus, 1969.

Segev, Tom. 1967: Israel, the War, and the Year That Transformed the Middle East. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2007.

Shalom, Zaki. The Role of US Diplomacy in the Lead-up to the Six Day War: Balancing Moral Commitments and National Interests. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2012.

Shemesh, Moshe. Arab Politics, Palestinian Nationalism and the Six Day War: The Crystallization of Arab Strategy and Nasir’s Descent to War, 1957-1967. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2008.

Shlaim, Avi, and William Roger Louis. The 1967 Arab-Israeli War: Origins and Consequences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Stein, Kenneth. The June 1967 War: How It Changed Jewish, Israeli and Middle Eastern History. Atlanta: Center for Israel Education, 2017. https://israeled.org/product/june1967/

U.S. Department of State, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964-1968, Arab-Israeli Crisis and War, Six Days of War, June 5-June 11, 1967, Volume XIX.

Articles

Ajami, Fouad. “How the 1967 Six-Day War Reshaped the Mideast,” U.S. News & World Report, June 3, 2007.

Barak, Eitan. “The Freedom That Never Was: Israel’s Freedom of Overflight Over the Straits of Tiran Prior to the Six Day War,” Journal of Contemporary History, 43:1 (2008): 75-91.

Bunch, Clea Lutz. “Strike at Samu: Jordan, Israel, the United States, and the Origins of the Six-Day War,” Diplomatic History, 32:1 (2008): 55-76.

Burrowes, Robert, and Muzzio Douglas. “The Road to the Six Day War: Towards an Enumerative History of Four Arab States and Israel, 1965-67,” The Journal of Conflict Resolution, 16:2 (June 1972): 211-26.

Center for Israel Education, Map of Israel and the Occupied Territories and Map of Israel After the 1967 War.

Cohen, Avner. “Cairo, Dimona, and the June 1967 War,” Middle East Journal, 50:2 (1996): 190-210.

Cohen, Avner. “Crossing the Threshold: The Untold Nuclear Dimension of the 1967 Arab-Israeli War and Its Contemporary Lessons,” Arms Control Today, 37:5 (2005): 12-16.

Cohen, Raymond. “Intercultural Communication Between Israel and Egypt: Deterrence Failure Before the Six-Day War,” Review of International Studies, 14.1 (January 1988): 1-16.

Dawn, C.E. “The Egyptian Remilitarization of Sinai, May 1967,” Journal of Contemporary History, 3:3 (July 1968): 201-24.

Elron, Zeev, and Moshe Gat. “Remarks on Air Power and the Six-Day War,” The Journal of Military History, 69:3 (2005): 811-820.

Gat, Moshe. “The Great Powers and the Water Dispute in the Middle East: A Prelude to the Six Day War,” Middle Eastern Studies, 41:6 (2005): 911-935.

Gat, Moshe. “Nasser and the Six Day War, 5 June 1967: A Premeditated Strategy or an Inexorable Drift to War?” Israel Affairs, 11.4 (October 2005): 608-635.

Gat, Moshe. “On the Use of Air Power and Its Effect on the Outbreak of the Six Day War,” The Journal of Military History, 68:4 (2004): 1187-1215.

Gat, Moshe. “Retaliatory Raids as an Accelerating Factor Leading to the Six-Day War,” The Historian, 70:3 (2008): 462-485.

Gawrych, G.W. “The Egyptian Military Defeat of 1967,” Journal of Contemporary History, 26:2 (1991): 277-305.

Geist, Benjamin. “A Question of Survival,” International Journal, 28:4 (1973): 630-47.

Gera, Gideon. “Israel and the June 1967 War: 25 Years Later,” Middle East Journal,46:2 (1992): 229-43.

Ginor, Isabella, and Gideon Remez. “The Spymaster, the Communist, and Foxbats Over Dimona: The USSR’s Motive for Instigating the Six-Day War,” Israel Studies, 11:2 (2006): 88-130.

Israel Government Yearbook 1967-1968/5728. “The Six Day War,” March 1968: 166-182.

Israel State Archives, “The Six Day War Files,” 2017.

Glickman, Gabriel. “How Nasser’s Vendetta Against America Led to the Six Day War,” Fathom, Spring 2017.

Gluska, Ami. “Israel’s Decision to Go to War, June 2, 1967,” Meria Journal, 11:2 (June 2007).

Goldstein, Yossi. “The Six Day War: The War That No One Wanted,” Israel Affairs, 24:5 (August 2018): 767-784.

Heilbronner, Oded. “The Morale of the Israeli Public on the Eve of the Six-Day War as Seen in Public Opinion Polls,” Israel Studies, 24.1 (Spring 2019): 151-73.

Hershberg, James G. “The Soviet Bloc and the Aftermath of the June 1967 War,” Wilson Center (no date).

Hertzberg, Arthur. “Jewish Identification After the Six-Day War,” Jewish Social Studies,31.3 (July 1969): 267-71.

Hinnebusch, Raymond. “Revisiting the 1967 Arab-Israel War and Its Consequences for the Regional System,” British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 44.4 (October 2017): 593–609.

Jamal, Amal. “In the Shadow of the 1967 War: Israel and the Palestinians,” British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 44.4 (October 2017): 529-44.

Kanovsky, E. “The Economic Aftermath of the Six Day War,” Middle East Journal, 22.2 (1968): 131-43.

Karsh, Efraim, G. Glickman and Efraim Innbar. “Rethinking the Six-Day War,” Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, 2017.

Machairas, Dimitrios. “The Strategic and Political Consequences of the June 1967 War,” Cogent Social Sciences, 3:1 (Feb 2017): 1-9.

McNamara, R. “Britain, Nasser and the Outbreak of the Six Day War,” Journal of Contemporary History, 35:4 (2000): 619-39.

Monk, Daniel B. “Diskotel 1967: Israel and the Western Wall in the Aftermath of the Six Day War,” Anthropology and Aesthetics, 48 (2005): 166-78.

Mor, B.D. “Nasser’s Decision-Making in the 1967 Middle East Crisis: A Rational-Choice Explanation,” Journal of Peace Research, 28:4 (1991): 359-75.

Mualem, Yitzhak. “Quiet Diplomacy: The Exodus of Egyptian Jews Between the Six-Day War and the War of Attrition,” Jewish Political Studies Review, 31, No. 1/2 (2020): 124–45.

Oren, Michael B. “The Revelations of 1967: New Research on the Six Day War and Its Lessons for the Contemporary Middle East,” Israel Studies, 10:2 (2005): 1-14.

Parker, Richard B. “The June 1967 War: Some Mysteries Explored,” Middle East Journal, 46:2 (1992): 177-97.

Peretz, Don. “Israel’s New Arab Dilemma,” Middle East Journal, 22.1 (1968): 45-57.

Popp, Roland. “Stumbling Decidedly Into the Six-Day War,” Middle East Journal, 2 (2006): 281-309.

Quandt, William B. “Lyndon Johnson and the June 1967 War: What Color Was the Light?” Middle East Journal, 46:2 (1992): 198-228.

Ross, Dennis; Nicholas Rostow and Michael Mandelbaum. “LBJ and the June 1967 War: Lessons From the American Role,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, June 2017.

Sachs, Natan. “50 years: Legacies of the 1967 War,” Brookings Institute, May 31, 2017.

Shemesh, Moshe. “The Fida’iyyun Organization’s Contribution to the Descent to the Six-Day War,” Israel Studies, 11:1 (2006): 1-34.

Shemesh, Moshe. “Prelude to the Six-Day War: The Arab-Israeli Struggle Over Water Resources,” Israel Studies, 9:3 (2004): 1-45.

Siboni, Gabi, Kobi Michael and Anat Kurz. “Six Days. Fifty Years: The June 1967 War and Its Aftermath,” Institute for National Security Studies, November 2018.

Steinberg, Gerald M., and Ziv Rubinovitz. “The Six-Day War and the Emergence of Begin’s Approach to Peace: 1967–70,” in Menachem Begin and the Israel-Egypt Peace Process: Between Ideology and Political Realism, Indiana University Press, 2019: 11-38.

Stein, Kenneth. “Israel’s Road to the June 1967 War, Chronology,”Center for Israel Education.

Stein, Kenneth. “The June 1967 War: Actions With Unfinished Consequences,” Center for Israel Education, February 2017.

Susser, Asher. “1967: The Six Day War Was a Watershed in Middle Eastern History,” Fathom, Spring 2017.

Zilberfarb, Ben-Zion. “The Short- and Long-Term Effects of the Six Day War on the Israeli Economy,” Israel Affairs, 24:5 (August 2018): 785-798.

Zisser, Eyal. “June 1967: Israel’s Capture of the Golan Heights,” Israel Studies, 7:1 (2002): 168-94.