A Senior Fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem, Michael Oren has published numerous articles and essays on the subject of Middle Eastern history. He is an officer and war veteran of the Israel Defense Forces and former advisor to the government of Yitzhak Rabin and to Israel's delegation to the United Nations.

Six Days of War was a New York Times Bestseller and Washington Post Best Book Award Winner in 2002. The book has been widely recognized as the definitive telling of the Six Day War in a context which is relevant today.

The book received stellar reviews:

"A richly detailed and lucid account... thrilling.... What makes this book important is the breadth and depth of the research. Oren draws on archives, newly declassified documents, memoirs and interviews from Israel, America, Britain and what was then the Soviet Union...he uses many Arab memoirs and accounts, giving the book a balanced tone and offerig fascinating new details.... A powerful rendering of what has turned out to be a world-historical event."-The New York Times Book Review

"A bad set of circumstances leading up to war. Mr. Oren brings a novelist's flair to recounting them and to the events of the war. His meticulous research cuts through the propagandized histories on all sides."-Wall Street Journal

"Michael Oren has written what is surely the definitive history of the Six Day War.... His narrative is precise but written with great literary flair.... In no one else's study is there more understanding or more surprise."-Martin Peretz, editor and publisher, The New Republic

"The finest book ever on this topic.... Spare, direct, and gripping."-Daniel Pipes, The Jerusalem Post