8vo. xxiii, 182 pp., 1 frontispiece map, 2 portrait b&w photographs, publisher’s original wrappers, previous owner’s inscription verso back cover, copy clean and in very good condition, notes, biblio, index, Frank Cass Publishers, London, first edition, 1998.

Synopsis

Based on extensive research of British documents from the Public Records Office, and American documents from the National Archives and several Presidential Libraries, this book surveys events in Kuwait from the beginning of the twentieth century until the Second World War, and explains Britain s initial interest in the ruling al-Sabah family, before focusing on the post-1945 period.