General study of the United Arab Emirates - covers historical aspects, demographic aspects, political aspects, geographical aspects, political problems, the role of European powers, treatys with britain and the role of UK foreign policy, the economy, the petroleum industry, economic development patterns, etc. Maps, references and statistical tables.
The most comprehensive account of Oman to be published, the standard, indispensable study in words, pictures, maps, and diagrams--newly updated and improved.
This is a memoir and for that reason we have hewed as closely as possible to fact: we described events as they happened and in the way they happened. But as much as a memoir this is a love story: a love story that proves that sometimes real narrations can be more improbable than fiction. The events described, for the most part in detail, also give the modern reader an understanding of how the farm/ranches of the western Midwest actually functioned in the early years of the twentieth century, as well as what kind of life was led by a daughter of well-to-do parents (by Puerto Rican standards of the time) who was living on a tropical island. For the most part, Don's and Argelia's adventures make for pleasant reading but tragedies are also an inevitable part of human life and tragedy also touched them.Two writers who have published have examined our manuscript and expressed positive impressions. Dr. Pat McCaw, of Eldridge, Iowa, wrote this comment: "I enjoy your memoir. It is well written, with fantastic personal stories. Dr. Judith Finkelstein, Professor Emerita of the University of Northern Iowa, commented: "I think you should see about having this made into a movie or drama for TV or something like that. More people need to be able to learn of your very interesting lives and the fascinating series of events which brought you together forever.
Tigers in the Sand is a romantic action-adventure story combining the rare mystique of World War II's North African campaign and its strange but often apolitical and sometimes chivalrous sense of mutual respect between bitter enemies with the contrasting realities of our more hypocritical modern times. Times of confused notions about morality and honor in this age of terrorism. It is a story of a confrontation between the values of a time gone by and this new era of politically expeditious spinning, of political correctness, and of spiritual bankruptcy. Old enemies join forces to battle modern terrorists and turn the tables on them by using their own means of inflicting terror and confusion, a resurrection of the old Afrika Korps with its hated and still feared swastika symbol. And doing so, they bury their own old hatchets in the heads of the terrorists and the new age they have come to symbolize.
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