Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East

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His journey to this point has long been legend. From his first postings as archaeologist, liaison and map officer, to fighting alongside guerrilla forces during the Arab Revolt. Journeying more than 300 miles through blistering heat to capture Aqaba, to his involvement in peace conferences that decided the future of the Middle East. Lawrence gave over his life the Middle East and its people. Wilson, Jeremy. "T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom: Publishing History". T. E. Lawrence Studies. Archived from the original on 2 May 2006 . Retrieved 17 July 2008. Wilson 1989, p.329: Describes a very early argument for letting the Ottomans stay in Medina in a November 1916 letter from Clayton. Initially, Lawrence played only a supporting role in the show, as the main focus was on Allenby's campaigns; but then Thomas realised that it was the photos of Lawrence dressed as a Bedouin which had captured the public's imagination, so he had Lawrence photographed again in London in Arab dress. [133] With the new photos, Thomas re-launched his show under the new title With Allenby in Palestine and Lawrence in Arabia in early 1920, which proved to be extremely popular. [133] The new title elevated Lawrence from a supporting role to a co-star of the Near Eastern campaign and reflected a changed emphasis. Thomas' shows made the previously obscure Lawrence into a household name. [133] Lawrence worked with Thomas on the creation of the presentation, answering many questions and posing for many photographs. [137] After its success, however, he expressed regret about having been featured in it. [138] Emir Faisal's party at Versailles, during the Paris Peace Conference of 1919; left to right: Rustum Haidar, Nuri al-Said, Prince Faisal (front), Captain Pisani (rear), Lawrence, Faisal's servant (name unknown), Captain Hassan Khadri

Ocampo, V. (1963). 338171 T. E. (Lawrence of Arabia). London. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link)Brown, Malcolm; Cave, Julia (1988). A Touch of Genius: The life of T. E. Lawrence. London: J.M. Brent. Meulenjizer, V. (1938). Le Colonel Lawrence, agent de l'Intelligence Service (in French). Brussels. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link) McGurk, Stuart (12 May 2017). "Alien: Covenant is great – but the aliens are the worst thing about it". GQ . Retrieved 17 October 2017.

In 1918, Lowell Thomas went to Jerusalem where he met Lawrence, "whose enigmatic figure in Arab uniform fired his imagination", in the words of author Rex Hall. [132] Thomas and his cameraman Harry Chase shot a great deal of film and many photographs involving Lawrence. Thomas produced a stage presentation entitled With Allenby in Palestine which included a lecture, dancing, and music [133] and depicted the Middle East as exotic, mysterious, sensuous, and violent. [133] Finished reading this with my kids, but I probably enjoyed it the most. It was a fun introduction to Lawrence of Arabia written by Alstair MacLean in 1962. It focuses on the role that T.E. Lawrence played in the Arab Revolt during WWI. There is just enough wind-up with his early life, character, etc., and the history/geography of Arabia to insure the thrust of MacLean's small biography doesn't lose nonserious readers in a desert of Arab ignorance. But the book's real brilliance is in MacLean's depiction of the Capture of Aqaba, Battle of Tafileh and the Fall of Damascus. At the end, MacLean also ties the book off with a summary of the post-War years and some of the political results of T.E. Lawrence's work with Winston Churchill and the Colonial Office. a b Wilson, J. " Seven Pillars of Wisdom—triumph and tragedy". T.E. Lawrence Studies. telstudies.org. Archived from the original on 5 December 2020 . Retrieved 19 June 2018. Seven Pillars of Wisdom is the autobiographical account of the experiences of British Army Colonel T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") while serving as a military advisor to Bedouin forces during the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire of 1916 to 1918. Graves, Robert (1934). Lawrence and the Arabs. London: Jonathan Cape – via Internet Archive (archive.org).

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An English Heritage blue plaque marks Lawrence's childhood home at 2 Polstead Road, Oxford, and another appears on his London home at 14 Barton Street, Westminster. [263] [264] In 2002, Lawrence was named 53rd in the BBC's list of the 100 Greatest Britons following a UK-wide vote. [265] Lawrence was an archaeologist in what is now Syria during the early 1910s when World War I broke out, pitting Britain, France, and Russia against Germany, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the Ottoman Empire. His fluency in Arabic and his first-hand knowledge of the Middle East brought him to the attention of British Army headquarters in Cairo, and he later became an adviser to Emir Faisal and helped lead the Arab Revolt against the Turks when he was only in his late 20s. The Odyssey of Homer, Lawrence's translation from the Greek, first published in 1932. ( ISBN 0-19-506818-1) Barr, James (2008). Setting the Desert on Fire: T. E. Lawrence and Britain's Secret War in Arabia 1916–1918. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-07095-8. Lawrence's major work is Seven Pillars of Wisdom, an account of his war experiences. In 1919, he was elected to a seven-year research fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, providing him with support while he worked on the book. [185] Certain parts of the book also serve as essays on military strategy, Arabian culture and geography, and other topics. He rewrote Seven Pillars of Wisdom three times, once "blind" after he lost the manuscript. [186]