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"In this fine work, Guy Laron, a young historian at the Hebrew  University of Jerusalem, takes a fresh look at the war and its causes. . . . Like all the best history, Laron’s book is studded with fascinating facts and anecdotes that shed light on his theories."—Michael Sheridan, Sunday Times"With the occupation now in ripe middle age, an engaging crop of new books is re­examining its consequences —and, in the case of Guy Laron’s The Six Day War, making us look afresh at the events that led to conflict between Israel and its neighbours. Laron, a historian at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University, argues that the war was no accident; rather, it was 'designed and even desired by prominent military figures in the warring countries.'"—John Reed, Financial Times"For Laron, there are no simple binaries. . . . Laron’s critical approach echoes that of Segev, while his diligent and eye-opening archival work complements that undertaken by Oren. He describes the war from a number of different perspectives, and places it in a global context . . . he paints a comprehensive and captivating picture of a complex reality."—Ari Shavit, Times Literary Supplement"A penetrating study of a conflict that, although brief, helped establish a Middle Eastern template that is operational today. . . . Readers with an interest in Middle Eastern geopolitics will find much of value."—Kirkus Reviews"Guy Laron’s forthcoming book on the 1967 Six-Day War—fittingly slated for publication in the year of the war’s 50th anniversary—is both impressive and disheartening. And it should be required reading for President-elect Donald Trump. . . . Readers will learn that it’s sometimes much easier for leaders to go to war than to make peace. So perhaps, despite everything else on his calendar right now, this is a book the president-elect should read. At the very least, we ordinary citizens should read it."—Jack Reimer, Jewish News Service“Laron has produced an excellent study. He is not afraid to challenge conventional wisdom, and has offered readers an interesting and important account of the [1967 Arab-Israeli] war on the occasion of its 50th anniversary.”—W. Andrew Terrill, Middle East Journal"Rich in new details about the prewar machinations in Syria, Egypt, and Israel . . . Laron sheds new light on Dayan's stances regarding Israel's esteem and northern fronts."—Michael Rubner, Middle East Policy Council"Guy Laron's Six Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East is a detailed and impressive account that does much to illuminate the origins of this elusive conflict."—Ray Takeyh, Survival Global Politics and Strategy"Revealing the long-held Israeli plans for expanding its borders, Laron goes significantly beyond William Roger Louis and Avi Shlaim’s important edited collection The 1967 Arab-Israeli War . . .  Laron shows the extent to which Israel’s General Staff were “eager to use the next war to expand Israel’s borders” and conquer new territories such as the West Bank and Gaza."—Thomas Erlich Reifer, Journal of Palestine Studies  "It is actually amazing that one scholar could produce so much detailed analysis of so many actors in this conflict: Egypt, Syria, Israel, the United States, and the Soviet Union. Dealing in depth with the domestic politics of each, including personality clashes and rivalries, all within the context of both regional and global events, Laron’s book is a remarkable accomplishment. Written clearly and logically and, most important of all, thoroughly documented, the book will be a classic regarding the background to and understanding of the Six-Day War."—Galia Golan, Israel Studies Review“It is actually amazing that one scholar could produce so much detailed analysis of so many actors in this conflict: Egypt, Syria, Israel, the United States, and the Soviet Union. . . . Laron’s book is a remarkable accomplishment. Written clearly and logically and, most important of all, thoroughly documented, the book will be a classic regarding the background to and understanding of the Six-Day War.”—Galia Golan, Israel Studies Review“A finely balanced account that puts the politics back into the study of the origins of the June 1967 War. Outstanding scholarship—this new book confirms Laron as a leading authority on the Arab-Israeli conflict.”—Eugene Rogan, author of The Arabs: A History"This timely and riveting work, drawing upon new archival materials from all the warring sides as well as US, Soviet, and Warsaw-Pact sources, provides a meticulously detailed political and military narrative along with a perceptive analysis of the origins, course, and outcome of the conflict that changed the Middle East and world politics."—Carole Fink, author of Defending the Rights of Others and Cold War: An International History"Laron uses sources no one else has and challenges all those who would understand these events as confined to its Middle Eastern context. Fifty years after the outbreak of the June 1967 war and there is finally someone with something new to say about it."—Robert Vitalis, author of White World Order, Black Power Politics"A new and exciting interpretation of the war that broke the Middle East, with the Soviet and Cold War aspects covered in full for the first time.  A very valuable corrective to the existing literature."—Odd Arne Westad, Harvard University, author of The Cold War: A World History

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Guy Laron is senior lecturer in international relations, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and has been a visiting scholar at the University of Maryland, Northwestern University, and Oxford. He is the author of Origins of the Suez Crisis and lives in Tel Aviv, Israel.

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What can another book on the Six Day War (6DW) add to the extensive body of existing literature (scholarly and otherwise)? Intensive research on the geopolitics of the region leading to the world - changing event itself. That is exactly what Laron's book provides.As is well known to prospective readers of this history, the 1967 6DW was one of the seminal events of the century. Its implications and repercussions extend far beyond the region, in both time and space. The military aspects of the campaign are both clear and obvious. On the Israeli side: exhaustive preparation, comprehensive military intelligence, excellent generalship and a highly motivated Israel Defense Force (IDF); all that proved catastrophic for the Arab opposition, a group lacking individually and collectively in all these areas (see Ken Pollack's excellent PhD thesis, "Arabs at War" for much more on this subject).Another book that simply rehashes 6DW military strategy would be marginally important. Instead, Laron concentrates on the geopolitics that both made the conflict "inevitable" and essentially predetermined the outcome. He accessed previously unavailable documents from closed archives in the former USSR, synthesized them and incorporated a vast amount of detail on intra-governmental maneuvering in Israel and amongst its Arab opponents into a generally readable and usually interesting book.Laron's analysis places him squarely in the camp of "the new historians" in Israel alongside Benny Morris and others who espouse a revisionist perspective on Israel and its actions. In the author's view, the influence of Israeli military figures on government decision making was significant and decisive. By various ongoing gambits, the Arabs (especially the Syrians) were goaded and provoked into a series of skirmishes that provided the pretext for more serious IDF responses. In turn, due to internecine conflicts, tribalism, corruption and general myopia (frequently amounting to actual stupidity), the Arabs (in general) and the Syrians (in particular) blundered repeatedly. Syria was briefly incorporated into an ill-advised "union" with Nasser's Egypt and indulged in ineffectual, bellicose, grandstanding posturing on the international political stage. Maladroit fumbling by Arab governments during the Cold War lessened any potential benefits to be gained by pitting the US against its Soviet allies. Alarmingly - and echoing present politics - Israeli government ministers were sometimes self-serving, cynical and ideologically motivated. Some (especially at the time of the 6DW, Levi Eshkol and Moshe Dayan) put opportunistic interests over those of their country, as Laron very convincingly demonstrates.Various conspiratorial explanations for the 6DW have been advanced. Most are absurd to the point of being ridiculous. One that briefly achieved currency was advanced in a book called, "Foxbats Over Dimona". The authors of this now out-of-print "analysis" stated that the USSR was responsible for the conflict. Laron demolishes whatever remained of the "Foxbats" theory. In fact, he makes it transparently obvious that the USSR (at least the Kosygin faction of the leadership) was resolute in opposing Arab military action. The US, on the other hand, was more irresolute: by vacillating, equivocating and insinuating to various Israeli officials that the US may be "green lighting" an attack (or not), Israel took license to proceed in full force, first on the Egyptian front, next against the Jordanian West Bank (thanks largely to the obtuse appointment by King Hussein of an Egyptian general with overall command responsibilities for Jordanian troops) and finally against the benighted and terminally incompetent Syrians on the Golan front. The Israeli goal - per Laron - was not only territorial expansion, but also the complete destruction of the Egyptian military: they succeeded. The consequences of all this are still evident.It cannot be denied that the Arabs provided plenty of provocation and pretext. For instance, Nassar dismissed the UN force in Sinai and inserted his own army. He closed of the Straits. He (and the Syrians) engaged in ill-advised proxy wars using Fatah to conduct "asymmetrical" warfare. Israel replied in kind and disproportionately (e.g., the 1966 raid on the Jordanian West Bank village of Samu, conducted in response to a Fatah land mine attack near the border, which killed 3 Israeli soldiers). Without background context of this sort, the 6DW is more difficult to understand.Unfortunately, large sections of this book are overly detailed summaries of political maneuvering, especially in Israel. While this provides useful background for future serious scholarship, it makes for dense reading. The actual battles are brilliantly summarized and relegated to the final chapter, "Conclusions". In other words, almost the entirety of this book is devoted to politics: not "straight" military history if these two things are even separable.An important coda to this book was recently published by Middle East expert, Bruce Riedel in a Brookings Institution article entitled, "Enigma". The gist of the piece is that the failures of Israeli military intelligence in 1973 and 1982 were catastrophic and stupid with nearly fatal dimensions. Evidently, King Hussein of Jordan directly alerted Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir of an impending attack (Operation Badr), coordinated between Egypt and Syria, with the Syrians taking the lead. This crucial intelligence coup was discounted and dismissed due to the mistaken assumption that the Arabs would not fight because they would lose. An extremely highly placed Egyptian source (Nasser's brother-in-law) repeatedly tipped off Israel. All these specific warnings were ignored. Laron alludes to a "closed loop" in the intelligence agencies regarding Arab military incompetence, a construct strongly reinforced by the 6DW success. This seminal outcome of the 6DW - a glaring deficiency by any measure - was not mentioned. In short, Reidel's October, 2017 article is absolutely not to be missed.For the serious student of the Arab-Israeli conflict, this book is an important addition. For those seeking a less detailed background exposition, it doesn't serve well. Laron's book does illustrate two important truisms: first, sometimes stupidity and good luck negate each other and second, the toxic mixture of political posturing and self-serving maneuvering for career advantage imperils the collective good. In the case of the 6DW and its subsequent impact in 1973 ("Operation Badr") and the First Lebanon War, the brew could have been fatal for Israel: its repercussions are still active in the region and internationally.

Much has been written about the Six Day War and Israel's impressive military victory. This book deals with all the events that led up to the war. Those of us who lived during this time had no idea of what was going on behind the scenes. Most books dealing with the Six Day War devote only a portion to the pre-war events. This book stops when the war begins. Definitely worth reading. Much of it is an eye opener.

This is not the book for those looking for a military history of the six-day war in June 1967. They should instead refer to Michael Oren's excellent "Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East". (Tellingly, Guy Laron subtitles his book, "The Breaking of the Middle East"). Laron only covers the military campaign in 25 pages of the conclusion chapter of a 313 page book (not counting end-notes and index).Rather, this is a history of the key diplomatic, economic, and financial events in the years leading up to that war, with particular emphasis on decisions made in Egypt, Syria, Israel, the United States, and the Soviet Union.Laron brings a new perspective to the origins of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. He blames political infighting in Syria and between Syria and Egypt for political political primacy and legitimacy within Syria, for causing Syrian adventurism and provocations against Israel in May 1967. He cites the struggle between Syria's military Baathist regime and the Egyptian-backed Muslim Brotherhood as being a cause of friction between those two countries, which the Syrian government tried to exorcise by embarrassing the Egyptian government with its own claimed aggressiveness against Israel. He also points to Syrian Baathist intervention in the mid-1960s on the side of the radical Fatah organization against the more moderate PLO.He describes the relationship between David Ben Gurion and Levi Eschol as much more hostile than I've previously read.Laron portrays Yitzak Rabin and the other IDF generals as hawkish to the point of provoking a war with Syria in 1966 to 1967, which makes Rabin's nervous breakdown shortly before the beginning of the Six-Day War all the more ironic.He reveals information I've never seen before. For example, one of the reasons for the very lopsided Israeli Air Force victory over the Syrian Air Force in a dogfight in April 1967 was due to the fact that the Syrian MiGs were unarmed because of fears about their use in a coup by the Air Force led by Hafiz Assad.I disagree with his characterization of John Kennedy as someone who "felt equally comfortable selling his liberal values using tough Cold War rhetoric." Kennedy was a flat-out hardline cold warrior, and what Laron claims are liberal values would be considered neo-conservative today.He does make his fair share of minor technical issues. The Soviet Su-7 is not a heavy bomber, but a fighter bomber. The USS Liberty was an American naval ship, not the "SS Liberty" that would suggest a commercial ship. The Israeli jamming planes were "Vautour", not "Votour".All in all a valuable addition to the scholarship around the 1967 war.

A great history describing all the moving parts from all over the world that influenced the war. Highly recommended if you are interested in the history of Middle Eastern affairs.

Very good explanation of the factors leading to the war and the historical backdrop. Some maps in the E-book version would have been very helpful.

Very good book . I also read "1967" by Tom Segev, on the same subject , it gave a more complete overview of the war and its aftermath.

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Too much detail on approach to war; not enough on the battles.

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“Beautifully illustrated…would raise the horological IQ of your coffee table collection more than a few points” - International Wrist Watch“The kind of read you don’t want to put down too often, the kind you’re tempted to sit up in bed with for a night of anecdote and insight. Brings beautifully to life the fabulous creations of watchmakers” - Qantas Magazine“Clerizo has an ear for the lively anecdote and colorful detail. Lavishly illustrated” - Watch Time“This lavishly illustrated book takes the reader beneath the exquisite faces of these handsome objects and shows the even more exquisite nests of springs, gears, flywheels and escapements that make them tick.” - Creators.com“Takes readers into the minds and workshops of the most celebrated modern watchmakers of our era…. Full of lush photos and watches to lust after.” - Cool Hunting Gift Guide

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I can only echo the praise heaped on this book by others - the photos and examples are revelatory. My three-star rating stems from an altogether different issue: much of the text is on the small side, and a great deal of it is printed on a colored background - a combination which makes the book almost wholly unreadable to my old eyes. I may struggle through the chapter on George Daniels, and I have certainly enjoyed the very fine photography - but a book I can't read? I'm very much afraid my copy goes to the second-hand bookstore up the street.

What drives the craftsmen who actually `make' a watch all by themselvesMasters of Contemporary Watchmaking. By Michael Clerizo. Published 2009 by Thames & Hudson Inc., New York, NY. (USA). ISBN 978 0-500-51485-6. Hardcover, dustjacket, 292 pages, 30x30 cm. 672 illustrations, 493 in color.With a Glossary, Bibliography, Source List and Index. Available through www.amazon.com for $54 plus postage (list price $85.-) or borrow from the NAWCC library.Watchmaker and watchmaking must be two of the words in the English language that are used most frequently in a sense far removed from their original meaning. How many people who are alive today have actually ever `made a watch', all by themselves? A few such people exist; but even if we are generous and do not insist that the individual has also made the case and the dial him- or herself there are precious few.The book under review explores the achievements of a significant sample from among the few contemporary artisans who actually make watches all by themselves - but more importantly, it tries to answer the question: What drives them in their seemingly quixotic quest? Michael Clerizo has conducted lengthy visits and interviews with 29 independent watch creators, exploring their motivations, their biographies, their work styles, the philosophies behind their products, and he describes the resulting masterpieces. 220 pages of the book are devoted to 11 chapters describing on 20 pages each the 11 craftsmen he found most fascinating, as well as their work. All these chapters are structured identically: Starting with a portrait page, then 8 pages of narrative, followed by 11 pages of large color photographs illustrating the oeuvre. The artists covered here are: George Daniels, Svend Andersen, Vincent Calabrese, Philippe Dufour, Antoine Preziuso, Franck Muller, Aniceto Jimenez Pita, Alain Silberstein, Marco Lang, Vianney Halter and Roger Smith.The final section of the book contains shorter chapters (either 2 or 4 pages each) on 18 additional craftsmen, who are introduced only through pictures of themselves and their creations, but without a text section. The list here includes Felix Baumgartner, Aaron Becsei, Nicolas Delaloye, Romain Gauthier, Paul Gerber, Greubel Forsey, Richard Habring, Beat Haldimann, J & S McGonigle, Rainer Nienaber, Thomas Prescher, Daniel Roth, Stepan Sarpaneva, Peter Speake-Marin, Andreas Strehler, Christiaan van der Klaauw, Kari Voutilainen, Volker Vyskocil.The 29 creators covered in this book account only for a miniscule portion of the high-grade watches produced today in the world, but in many ways their stories condense the essence behind the resurgence of the high-grade mechanical watch. The individuals covered range from those who by choice remain single practicioners, who produce less than a handful of pieces a year, to some who have grown into small brands like Silberstein or Franck Muller. But no matter how small or relatively big their businesses are, these craftsmen are all incredibly passionate about their work and hold stong and interesting opinions about contemporary horology.Unlike other publications on extremely exclusive timepieces this book avoids the platitudes crafted by the image consultants of the brands and rehashed endlessly by their public relations advisers. It speaks in the voice of the creative geniuses behind these innovative watches, and the reader gets a good sense about the personalities involved. This reviewer found the book entertaining, inspirational and educational. It is a large and heavy book, not conducive for bedtime reading. It is also a pretty and nicely designed book, in some regards too much so: The bulk of the text is printed in `white on gold background', admittedly elegant, but rather hard to read in less than perfect lighting conditions. The choice which individuals to cover in this kind of book is a subjective one; this reviewer would have prefered to hear more from the ones doing all the work themselves, and less from makers like Alain Silbersstein and Franck Muller who really belong more to the corporate world than to the sphere of craftsmen. In spite of these shortcomings this title is probably the most engaging description published recently on the smallest, but also most interesting sector of the contemporary watchmaking industry.Fortunat Mueller-Maerki, Sussex NJ. (May 2010)

Let me start by simply stating that I love watches. I have an obsession. It's an obsession that cannot be overcome by just buying more watches either. And, books like this do not help...This book is truly spectacular. The sheer size and weight alone is impressive enough. The images depicted are something you just can't get by looking at or in a watch. Nor can you get such great information about some of the greatest living watchmakers of our time. The author did a terrific job of capturing each of the watchmakers stories. Including very candid information from such controversial masters such as Franck Muller.A good portion of this book provides a deep look into the minds of several great watchmakers. In addition, towards the end, several other watchmakers are introduced as are their time pieces. Speaking of the time pieces, the images provide very large and high resolution views of some amazing movements. One can quickly forget how small the parts are when viewing at such a large scale.If you have a passion for watches, then you cannot go wrong by buying this book. If you have a love of anything mechanical, then you will quickly learn to appreciate the fine art of watchmaking.

The text presentation in this book is about the worst I've seen. The printing is within a circular outline rather than in normal columnar format, so each line is a different length . A brown background with off-white print is difficult enough to read. Some pages then have line drawings superimposed over the text, in almost the same color as the text. This makes it even more difficult and annoying to read, and supplies no useful information.Good photos, but overall disappointing.

The shear beauty and craftsmanship of these small, complicated and mechanical timepieces depicted in this book, seem almost miraculous, and wonder to look at and enjoy! Such excellent photography of such masterpieces! A book to proudly own and keep on your coffee table!

It is a photography book of impressive pieces and stories and motivations of its creators. The photographic quality and the format of the book help to enjoy it. This is art, not technique.

One of the compulsory reading books for anyone interested in Independent Watchmaking. Michael has compiled a great account, with lovely pictures, of these guy's life work. Compelling stuff and required reading for those who want to learn about the real watchmakers creating haute Horology, that do what they want to do and are able to continue on doing what they feel have to do.

I bought this book to give as a gift. Luckily, for me, I also got the same book given to me as a gift! If you like mechanical watches, you'll appreciate the beauty of this book.

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Written in bursts of poetic description, this book is a fast, enjoyable yet somewhat disturbing read. I am traveling to Spain next month to busk on the streets with my kids and husband so the descriptions of Spain and especially of his experience busking on the streets there intrigued me. The author's observations seem insightful and believable, but I never grew to trust in the honor of his character when it came to women. For me, his almost nightly drunkeness, his staring at the breasts of the daughter of his host for one night, his describing young girls as "sexily confident", his visit to the brothel, his lusting after women, his describing so many things in the natural world as voluptuous,and his inaction when a mother told him the man before him had just committed incest on his own daughter made me feel uneasy about his attitudes of women. He also describes a quite seedy side of Spain. That being said, I enjoyed his sense of adventure and found his writing style potent, succinct and very poetic. Some of his lines are among the best that I've read. Very mixed, but ultimately I would recommend the book if you can deal with the downsides I mentioned. The last chapter and a half about the start of the Spanish Civil War were absolute page-turners.

I've read a lot of travel books about people like Lee, who set off on their own to "see the world". What piqued my interest in this particular diary, however, was it's connection to the beginning, at least, of the Spanish Civil War. I grew up in the 30''s, and well remember this precursor to WW II, and the fateful & terrible events to follow. It also provides many stark descriptions, which I think most of us have either forgot... or never been aware of...the conditions of extreme poverty that existed in pre-WW II Europe, and are still extant in the third world. A more than worth-while read..

This has got to be one of the most evocative memoirs ever written; it certainly tops all the other road-trip/travelers tales I've read. As befits an award winning poet, Lee's prose has a concise, 3-D image making eloquence that drops the reader into the center of a scene, in the breathing presence of a character, or into the tactile truth of a landscape.In the mid-1930s, the nineteen year-old Lee sets out on foot from his Gloucestershire home, with a tin of biscuits and a violin, on his way to London via a hundred mile detour to coast "as I'd never yet seen the sea." Two years later he is fortuitously "rescued" off the coast of southern Spain by the Royal Navy trawling the Spanish beaches for stray Brits marooned between the warring factions of the Spanish Civil War. Lee's narrative of what happens in between these events provides priceless images of life as experienced by a penniless wanderer in depression-era Britain and pre-modern Spain.Few histories of an era or place can conjure its emotional and physical resonance quite so well as a living memory. In his description of life on the road to London, Lee is able to capture the essence of the failure of capitalism during the Thirties (our current failure being but an echo of it's father).Spoiler Alert...quotations from the book:Lee finds himself among the "host of unemployed who wandered aimlessly about England at that time...They were like a broken army walking away from war, cheeks sunken, eyes dead with fatigue. Some carried bags of tools or broken cardboard suitcases; some wore the ghosts of city suits...walking up and down the country in a maze of jobless refusals.." Among them are professional tramps, like Alf, who taught him the ways of the road. "He wore a deerstalker hat, so sodden and shredded it looked like a helping of breakfast food...a tramp to his bones, always wrapping and unwrapping himself, and picking over his bits and pieces...never passing a bit of grass that looked good for a shakedown nor a cottage that seemed ripe for charity."Soon after he parts from Alf on the outskirts of Ascot, the other half of society rolls into view: "I wasn't surprised when one of the Daimlers pulled up and an arm beckoned me from the window..."Want a pheasant my man?" asked a voice from inside. "We just knocked over a beauty a hundred yards back." A quarter of an hour later I arrived at Ascot. It was race week...little grooms and jockeys dodging among the long glossy legs of thoroughbreds; and the pedigree owners dipping their long cool necks into baskets of pate and gull's eggs...Alf and the tattered lines of the workless were far away in another country..."Plus ça change, eh?

It is a fact that there is a whole legion of walkers in the world and always has been. There perhaps are many like Laurie Lee and Paul Theroux who have walked to other lands but few of those have the gift of observation that sees things as they are and can write their opinion about it. Lee wrote in the last century- Theroux decades ago. In their reading it is clear they both truly liked about their adventures, the things they saw, and the people they met.Lee in his description of those two was most informative and entertaining; a gift to the 19year old novice walker that he was. The physical strength and endurance dictated by his route as well as his cleverness in finding the means to fit in and survive with the peasants of the many parts of Spain in the late 1930’s as he traveled, is what amazed me. It is well worth the read; a fine well written adventure.

I loved this book and was amazed that Laurie Lee, with such an impoverished upbringing in a tiny country village, could write so brilliantly. I greatly admired his gumption in setting off on foot and on his own with almost no money, almost no clothes and just an old violin for company. That he managed to survive in London - always an expensive place - and then get himself from one end of Spain to the other by busking is astonishing.Laurie Lee comes across as a highly intelligent person, in spite of having little in the way of formal education, but also an extremely empathetic and likeable person. I wish I could have met him - I'm sure it would have been wonderful!

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