Sheikh Abdullah Mubarak Al-Sabah was a pivotal influence in the creation of the modern State of Kuwait and his controversial role a key to its subsequent development.
Sir Roger Tomkys, Former Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former British Ambassador to Syria and Bahrain.
Get the first edition of the book Petroleum in the United Arab Emirates, published by the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources in 1977, which provides a comprehensive historical and geographical overview of the petroleum industry in the Emirates.