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After the war, Lawrence was Advisor on Arab Affairs in the Middle Eastern Division of the Colonial Office. He was commissioned on the outbreak of the First World War and in 1917 was officially attached to the staff of the Hejaz expeditionary force, under General Wingate. Thomas Edward Lawrence (1888-1935) was born in Wales and educated at Jesus and Magdalen Colleges, Oxford. This edition includes maps, drawings by Eric Kennington, and index of place names and a preface by A.W. This is the greatest monument to his character and achievements, and formed the basis for the Oscar-winning film Lawrence of Arabia, staring Peter O’Toole and Alec Guinness. Lawrence is one of the twentieth century’s most fascinating figures. Forster, ‘Round this tent-pole of a military chronicle, Lawrence has hung an unexampled fabric of portraits, descriptions, philosophies, emotions, adventures, dreams’. Seven Pillars of Wisdom recreates epic events with extraordinary vividness. Lawrence – also known as ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ – of his service in the Arab Revolt during the First World War, published in Penguin Modern Classics.Īlthough ‘continually and bitterly ashamed’ that the Arabs had risen in revolt against the Turks as a result of fraudulent British promises of self-rule, Lawrence led them in a triumphant campaign which revolutionized the art of war. Seven Pillars of Wisdom is the autobiographical account of T.E.
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