'Fair Play' or Poisoned Chalice: The Last Years of Britain's Presence and Policy

Description: 'Fair Play' or Poisoned Chalice by Sultan Ghalib bin ‘Awadh al-Qu‘aiti II Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description This book is an illuminating eye-opener about the recent political history of a region that continues to suffer from grave paucity of material for the purpose of scholarship. Regardless of Southern Arabias past greatness and current significance and strategic importance to the world at large, so little is known. Publisher Description The region of South Arabia (including the vast region of Hadhramaut) has been a part of the Yemen since 1990 due to a shot-gun marriage of an arrangement following the perestroika, leading to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the withdrawal of its protecting presence. Since then it has been in a regular state of ever-increasing political turmoil and instability. This is due to the United Nations failure to implement its Resolutions concerning the regions political future prior to British withdrawal in 1967, with Southern Arabias strategic location at the doorstep of the worlds major oil resources and its constant insecurity adding fuel to fire, the latest case being the current crisis and the launch of Operation Decisive Storm in 2015. This study may be deemed authoritarian for the period it covers from many aspects due to the pen from which its authorship flows and the high and sensitive position held by its wielder at the time of the events it covers. It should certainly prove a revealing and illuminating eye-opener about the recent political history of a region that continues to suffer from grave paucity of material for the purpose of scholarship, and about which, regardless of its past greatness and current significance and strategic importance to the world at large, so little is known. Author Biography Sultan Ghalib was primarily educated in England at Millfield School, then Magdalen College (Oxford) and Magdalene College (Cambridge). The last Sultan of Hadhramaut (the Quaiti State), born in 1948, he became the Crown Prince upon his Grandfather HH Sultan Sir Saleh bin Ghalibs death in 1956 following his father Sultan Awadhs accession and was accorded official recognition by the British Government as the Protecting and Advisory power. "Welcomed by almost every class", according to the British intelligence officer Ledger upon ascending the throne in 1966 due to his fathers demise, he left his home against his wishes upon British mandatory advice in order to meet the United Nations Mission on South Arabias Independence in Geneva, only to find himself stranded abroad. The British presence was unexpectedly withdrawn from his State in his absence and he was to be informed of their inability to convey him back home from their seat in Aden, then the regions doorway to the outside world, "for security reasons". All this took place within the space of just over ten days upto early September 1967, and while he was still allied to Britain and he and his subjects were under British protection. Meanwhile, South Arabias date of independence was also suddenly brought forward by nearly forty days to 30th November 1967, when the Peoples Republic of South Yemen was born. This book is the untold story (at least as far as Hadhramaut is concerned) of those last few years of British presence in the region. It is an insiders view of the events that took place and the background to them. In this, the Author may be considered to be in the advantageous position of examining them from the indigenous insiders viewpoint while taking equal note of those of the other sides involved due to his academic background and training. He has already a number of articles and books to do with the region to his credit in Arabic and in English. These apart from being introduced by such personalities as HRH Prince Muhammad al-Faisal, HE Professor Ekmeledddin Ihsanoglu (the Former Secretary General of the OIC) and the late scholar and poet HE Shaikh Abdullah Bal-Khair, have been creditably reviewed by the world of academe with Professor T. Winter of Cambridge University, for example, describing him as "one the leading experts in Arabian history". Details ISBN 1850773319 ISBN-13 9781850773313 Title 'Fair Play' or Poisoned Chalice Author Sultan Ghalib bin Awadh al-Quaiti II Format Hardcover Year 2021 Pages 408 Publisher Darf Publishers Ltd GE_Item_ID:133109826; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. 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