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Is there anything new to say about T.E. Lawrence? Yes, as Scott Anderson’s book on the making of the Middle East shows.
T. E. Lawrence was far more than a glamorous, swashbuckling, heroic figure in flowing robes mounted on a camel, leading the Arab tribes against the Turks in World War One.
Lawrence of Arabia: My Journey in Search of T.E. Lawrence is the first biography I’ve read in which the author explains what it’s like to kill a man: “I had often shot at people hundreds of ...
T. E. Lawrence: The Selected Letters Edited by Malcolm Brown Norton, 568 pages, $17.50 T. E. Lawrence transformed himself from an obscure archeologist with no military experience into a brilliant s… ...
David Lean’s masterpiece about T.E. Lawrence is the template for Star Wars, Dune, and many more of our favorite fantasies set galaxies away.
TE Lawrence: Action man He was an enigma wrapped in Arab robes, a soldier who loved fighting but who enjoyed listening to classical music at home.
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T E Lawrence. Archaeologist, spy and writer. This man who rallied the Arabs to defeat the Ottoman Empire, documenting his account in the Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
David Lean’s Oscar-winning 1962 epic Lawrence of Arabia is rightly regarded as one of the greatest films ever made. Despite a gruelling, at times almost surreal shoot that resulted in ill ...
T.E. Lawrence was born on Aug. 16, 1888 in Tremadog in Wales, in the United Kingdom. One of five illegitimate children reportedly born to the Seventh Baron of Westmeath, he studied at Jesus ...
T.E. Lawrence, better known as “Lawrence of Arabia,” played a pivotal role in the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire during World War I. I recently read his autobiography, “Seven ...