ABSTRACT

This book tells the story of the Yemeni people, treating them as a single people. It shows that all over South West Arabia a unique civilisation arose in antiquity and many of its manifestations so conformed to the Yemeni temperament that they have lingered, until the present day.

chapter Chapter One|15 pages

Pre-Islamic and Mediaeval Yemen

chapter Chapter Two|20 pages

European Intervention, Isolation and Renewed Intervention

chapter Chapter Three|30 pages

Two Empires in the Yemen

chapter Chapter Four|38 pages

Aden and the Hinterland 1919-1959

chapter Chapter Five|26 pages

Yemen under the Mutawakilite Kings 1919-1962

chapter Chapter Six|65 pages

The Federation of South Arabia

chapter Chapter Seven|24 pages

The War in the North 1962-1970

chapter Chapter Eight|43 pages

The Two Yemens 1968-1972

chapter Chapter Nine|59 pages

The Two Yemens 1972-1979

chapter |17 pages

Postscript: March 1979 to October 1981