Thursday, March 07, 2013

Arabian Days - The Memoirs of Two Trucial Oman Scouts, Antony Cawston and Michael Curtis.

Arabian Days - The Memoirs of Two Trucial Oman Scouts, Antony Cawston and Michael Curtis.

Two memoirs that look at life in the Trucial Oman Scouts (a precursor of the army of the UAE) in two periods during the 1960s. The authors came to the unit in very different ways, but both clearly enjoyed their time there, and they paint a very sympathetic picture of life in the Emirates at the very start of the oil boom.
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