"So we left without glory but without disaster" - Sir Humphrey
Trevelyan, the last High Commissioner of the Federation of South
Arabia
In 1967, 139 years after their arrival in Aden, the British
withdrew from the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula. Their
departure was abrupt, messy and controversial. Using important,
previously unpublished material and original interviews with a
range of individuals, both British and Yemeni, who lived through
this defining period of colonial history, Without Glory in Arabia
tells the story of the final few years of British rule in Aden and
the neighboring Eastern and Western Aden Protectorates. While some
view British rule, on the whole, as beneficial to the local
population, others insist that very little was achieved. Worse,
Britain did not provide a structure of government constitution
which met the conflicting needs of Aden and the Protectorate. This
illuminating book brilliantly sets the "scuttle" - as the episode
came to be known - in context with a thorough re-examination of the
background against which the events of the 1960s unfolded in this
obscure backwater of the British Empire.
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