Royalist tribal forces with strong financial and material support from Saudi Arabia fought hard and effectively to defeat the Egyptian-backed republican regime. [...]once the Egyptian-supported Yemeni government began to appear totally subservient before Cairo, indigenous sup- port for the new regime plummeted. [...]this book will probably stand as the most important aca- demic work on the Yemen War until a vari- ety of currently closed archives are opened and a new scholar of Ferris' capabilities ex- amines the documents inside.