Peter Hinchcliffe, John T. Ducker, and Maria Holt, Without Glory in Arabia. The British Retreat from Aden

The withdrawal from Aden and South Arabia must surely stand as one of the most humiliating, and indeed damaging to Britain’s long-term interests, in the annals of British decolonization. Far from leaving behind a stable and friendly successor state through a transitional constitutional process, Britain found itself involved in a fighting retreat which resulted in the Marxist-inspired People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen emerging from the wreckage of the former colonial state. In many ways, ...