Lawrence in Arabia – Scott Anderson

Name: Lawrence in Arabia - Scott Anderson
SKU: SNT082
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Format: Hardcover with DJ
Published: 2013 (Doubleday)
Pages: 577
ISBN: 9780385532921

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SKU: SNT082 Categories: History and Politics, Non-Fiction Tag: scott anderson

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Lawrence in Arabia – Scott Anderson
War, Deceit, imperial folly and the making of the modern Middle East

The Arab Revolt against the Turks in World War I was, in the words of T. E. Lawrence, “a sideshow of a sideshow.” As a result, the conflict was shaped to a remarkable degree by a small handful of adventurers and low-level officers far removed from the corridors of power.At the center of it all was Lawrence himself. In early 1914 he was an archaeologist excavating ruins in Syria; by 1917 he was riding into legend at the head of an Arab army as he fought a rearguard action against his own government and its imperial ambitions. Based on four years of intensive primary document research, Lawrence in Arabia definitively overturns received wisdom on how the modern Middle East was formed.