Lawrence : the uncrowned king of Arabia

Author(s)

• Asher, Michael
• Peru, Mariantonietta

Bibliographic Information

Lawrence : the uncrowned king of Arabia

Michael Asher ; with colour photographs by Mariantonietta Peru

Penguin Books, 1999, c1998

Note

Originally published: London : Viking, 1998

Includes bibliographical references (p. 399-403) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

'The best life of Lawrence yet published' - The Express Lawrence was a brilliant propagandist, rhetorician and manipulator, who deliberately turned his life into a conundrum. But who was the real man behind the masks? Lawrence began the GreatWar as a map-clerk and ended it as one of the greatest military heroes of the 20th century. He altered the face of the Middle East, helped to lead the Arabs to freedom and formulated modern guerilla warfare. Yet he refused any honours and spent therest of his life in near obscurity. Desert explorer and Arabist, Michael Asher, set out to solve this riddle and discovers a hero whose greatness owed as much to his weaknesses as to his strengths.

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Details

• NCID: BA80226041
• ISBN:
  • 014025854X
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: 418 p., [24] p. of plates
• Size: 20 cm
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Lawrence, T. E. (Thomas Edward), 1888-1935
  • LCSH : World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Middle East
  • LCSH : Soldiers -- Great Britain
  • LCSH : Middle East -- History -- 1914-1923