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Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Heavy Yellowing Due to Age. SUB-TITLE: The Life of ibn Saud. FRONT COVER: Front cover shows a portrait of ibn Saud reproduced with the kind permission of the department of information, Saudi Arabian Embassy CONTENTS: PROLOGUE; PART ONE--THE PRINCE I Capture of a Capital II Bedouin at War III Battles and Marriages IV The British Resident V Death of an Enemy PART TWO--THE PURITAN VI Religion and the Sword VII Shakespear VIII Death of an Englishman IX Lawrence and the Sherif of Mecca X Philby XI Fall of the House of Rashid PART THREE--THE KING XII Rule of Law XIII The Fight for Mecca XIV King of the Hejaz XV Revolt of the Brotherhood XVI The American Concession PART FOUR--THE MILLIONAIRE XVII The Oil Strike XVIII Roosevelt and Churchill XIX Money and Dishonour; Sources and Acknowledgements. SYNOPSIS: In 1901, ibn Saud, twenty-one years old and penniless, rode out on camelback from Kuwait, accompanied by forty men, to reconquer his father's kingdom. At his death, fifty years later, he was the undisputed ruler of most of Arabia and one of the richest men in the world. This account of his rise to fame and fortune is one of the most adventurous and fascinating life-stories of this century. Ibn Saud was a fearless fighter, a master of desert war strategy, yet also a suave and charming diplomat who could show great clemency to the defeated. He waged a long fight against foreign influence: against Turkey whose army died in the desert and against Britain. Ironically it was America which drew the oil from the deserts and earned unimaginable wealth for ibn Saud--wealth which brought the near destruction of his life's ideals.