Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Humiliating Withdrawal or a Necessary Retreat? Reflections on Britain and South Arabia 50 Years on Clive Jones 1 The British Withdrawal from South Arabia John Ducker 2 Britain’s Security Response: Was the Protectorate Aden’s Shield or Achilles Heel? J. G. R. Harding 3 ‘Present Drift of Events Makes One Feel Extremely Embittered and Depressed.’: The British Exit from South Arabia Thanos Petouris 4 Breaking Promises and Betraying Friends? Reflections on the British Withdrawal from Aden Oliver Miles CMG 5 A Federal Panacea? British Policy and the Idea of a South Arabian Federal State, 1952-63 Joseph Higgins 6 The South Arabian Army – A Poisoned Chalice? Jonathan Walker Operation Salah al-Din: The Egyptian Intelligence Service and its Role in the Clandestine War against Britain in South Yemen Martin Jerret 8 Waiting for Labour: Alec Douglas-Home, Lyndon Johnson and the Challenge of South West Arabia, 1963-64 Tore T. Petersen 9 Between Withdrawal and Greater Engagement: The Aden Abandonment and its Impacts on British Policymaking towards Oman, 1968-72 James Worrall 10 Managing and Mismanaging Departure: The South Arabian Federation and the United Arab Emirates in Comparative Perspective Simon C. Smith 11 South Yemen after the British Helen Lackner