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

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Lawrence, T. E. (2003). Seven Pillars of Wisdom: The Complete 1922 Text. Castle Hill Press. ISBN 978-1-873141-39-7. The resultant trust paid off the debt, and Lawrence then invoked a clause in his publishing contract to halt publication of the abridgement in the United Kingdom. However, he allowed both American editions and translations, which resulted in a substantial flow of income. [195] The trust paid income either into an educational fund for children of RAF officers who lost their lives or were invalided as a result of service, or more substantially into the RAF Benevolent Fund. [197] Posthumous [ edit ] During the closing years of the war, Lawrence sought to convince his superiors in the British government that Arab independence was in their interests, but he met with mixed success. [126] The secret Sykes-Picot Agreement between France and Britain contradicted the promises of independence that he had made to the Arabs and frustrated his work. [127] Post-war years [ edit ]

Lawrence, T. E. (1935). Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-07015-7. Knowles, Richard (1991). "Tale of an 'Arabian knight': the T. E. Lawrence effigy". Church Monuments. 6: 67–76. Wilson, J. (1989). Lawrence of Arabia: The authorised biography of T. E. Lawrence. Atheneum. ISBN 978-0-689-11934-7– via Internet Archive (archive.org).Hulsman, John C. (2009). To Begin the World over Again: Lawrence of Arabia from Damascus to Baghdad. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-230-61742-1. In the evening when we had shut-to the gate, all guests would assemble … and coffee and stories would go round until the last meal, and after it, till sleep came. On stormy nights, we brought in brushwood and dung and lit a great fire in the middle of the floor. About it would be drawn the carpets and saddle-sheepskins, and in its light we would tell over our own battles, or hear the visitors’ traditions. The leaping flames chased our smoke-ruffled shadows strangely about the rough stone wall behind us, distorting them over the hollows and projections of its broken face." Lawrence lived in a period of strong official opposition to homosexuality, but his writing on the subject was tolerant. He wrote to Charlotte Shaw, "I've seen lots of man-and-man loves: very lovely and fortunate some of them were." [224] He refers to "the openness and honesty of perfect love" on one occasion in Seven Pillars, when discussing relationships between young male fighters in the war. [225] The passage in the front matter is referred to with the single-word tag "Sex". [226]

In Tony Parsons’ novel, The Murder Bag (2014), the Seven Pillars is referenced as part of the curriculum at Potters Field school and has a formative influence on a group of former pupils. Simpson, Andrew R. B. (2011). Another Life: Lawrence After Arabia. History Press. p.283. ISBN 978-0752466446. He was multilingual, a passionate intellectual, cunning intelligence agent and brilliant military tactician with multiple times of actual combat experiences. Carchidi, Victoria K. (1987). Creation Out of the Void: The making of a hero, an epic, a world: T. E. Lawrence. University of Pennsylvania – via University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, MI.

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Max von Oppenheim (1860–1946), German-Jewish lawyer, diplomat and archaeologist. Lawrence called his travelogue "the best book on the [Middle East] area I know". Graves, Richard Perceval (1976). Lawrence of Arabia and His World. Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-13054-4– via Internet Archive (archive.org). A legend in his own lifetime, Lawrence’s epic story has always been ripe for the retelling – but Ranulph Fiennes is no ordinary biographer. Wilson 1989, p.33: In note 34, Wilson discusses a painting in Lawrence's possession at the time of his death which appears to show him as a boy in RGA uniform.

Swedish power metal band Sabaton wrote the song "Seven Pillars Of Wisdom" about Lawrence for their 2019 album The Great War. [277] Somehow Thomas Edward Lawrence's been the most famous when it comes to the "Arab Revolt" against a key Central Power Ottoman Empire during the First World War, but his story tells a lot more people and their contributions, as a matter of fact some more important and heavier than Col. T. E. Lawrence's roles in the fields of [Ne The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, US TV series (1992–1993) with episodes depicting moments from Lawrence's lifeSydney Smith, Clare (1940). The Golden Reign – The story of my friendship with Lawrence of Arabia. London: Cassell & Company. p.16. In the summer of 1896, the family moved to 2 Polstead Road in Oxford, where they lived until 1921. [11] Lawrence attended the City of Oxford High School for Boys from 1896 until 1907, [14] where one of the four houses was later named "Lawrence" in his honour; the school closed in 1966. [16] Lawrence and one of his brothers became commissioned officers in the Church Lads' Brigade at St Aldate's Church. [17] The authoritative, illuminating biography of T. E. Lawrence from “The World’s Greatest Living Explorer” Ranulph Fiennes. Meyer, Karl E.; Brysac, Shareen Blair (2008). Kingmakers: the Invention of the Modern Middle East. New York / London: W.W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-06199-4– via Internet Archive (archive.org). Thomas Edward Lawrence CB DSO (16 August 1888– 19 May 1935) was a British archaeologist, army officer, diplomat, and writer who became renowned for his role in the Arab Revolt (1916–1918) and the Sinai and Palestine Campaign (1915–1918) against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. The breadth and variety of his activities and associations, and his ability to describe them vividly in writing, earned him international fame as Lawrence of Arabia, a title used for the 1962 film based on his wartime activities.