An unusual military vocabulary and grammar book for British personnel serving with the Sultan of Oman's Armed Forces. Whilst the focus is purely on a spoken working knowledge of Arabic, it achieves this in a meandering manner with sections devoted to ordering tea, making polite conversation and establishing the rank of your military interlocutor. The nine units are each structured around a small introductory vocabulary, a simplified grammar, and sample dialogues, with later units adding revision.

The final 15 pages are a vocabulary word list that includes military locations, formations, followers (trades), "weapons and connected terms", weather, medical, parts of the body, countries and directions. The author stresses the need for the reader to start speaking Arabic with locals “as soon as they’ve learnt 2 to 3 words,” (introduction).

There are some joyous eccentricities in the text, examples being the use of northern and southern English accents to sound Arabic pronunciations and a practice conversation titled between Khalfaan who '..meets Saalim who is slightly deaf,' with no obvious variation in the dialogue.

Scarce.