The Mint

In 1922, his dreams of an independent Arabia shattered, T.E. Lawrence enlisted in the RAF under the assumed name John Hume Ross. Though methodical and restrictive, life there seemed to suit Lawrence: "The Air Force is not a man-crushing humiliating slavery, all its days. There is sun & decent treatment, and a very real measure of happiness, to those who do not look forward or back." With poetic clarity, Lawrence brings to life the harsh realities of barracks life and illuminates the strange twilight world he had slipped into after his war experiences. For anyone interested in the life of one of the 20th century's most enduring heroes and his life beyond the well-documented Arab revolt, The Mint is essential and compelling reading.

Literature & Fiction

T.E.Lawrence

Literary

Penguin??Books

Seven Pillars of Wisdom encompasses an account of the Arab Revolt against the Turks during the First World War alongside general Middle Eastern and military history, politics, adventure and drama. It is also a memoir of the soldier known as âLawrence of Arabia.â Lawrence was a fascinating and controversial figure whose talent as a vivid and imaginative writer shines through on every page of this, his masterpiece. âIt ranks with the greatest books ever written in the English language. As a narrative of war and adventure . . . it is unsurpassable.ââWinston Churchill

Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph

Biographies & Memoirs

Penguin Classics

A wonderful anthology and personal collection. Description: 272 p. Port. 22 cm. Subjects: English poetry. Lawrence, T. E. (Thomas Edward) 1888-1935.

Minorities; good poems by small poets and small poems by good poets

DOUBLEDAY

Format: Paperback ISBN-10: 0385418957 ISBN-13: 9780385418959 Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 784 pages Language: English

Seven pillars of wisdom : a triumph

History

Military

Anchor Books

Ernest Hemingway's Men at War (1942) is an anthology of war stories chosen and introduced by Hemingway, based on an idea suggested by William Kozlenko. According to a prefatory note, Kozlenko not only submitted a preliminary plan for the book but suggested the inclusion of several of the stories it contains. By March of 1942 the USA was finally involved in World War II, and the anthology was seen as an inspirational book. As Hemingway wrote in his introduction, the book could not tell young men how to die, but it could tell them how previous generations had fought and died.

Men at War: The Best War Stories of All Time

LEO TOLSTOY

JAMES HILTON

Alexander Woollcott

Winston, Churchill

C.s.forester

Rudyard, Kipling

Stephen, Crane

William, Faulkner

United States

Wings Books

An epic account of the Great War in the Middle East. T. E. Lawrence - Lawrence of Arabia - needs no introduction. His renowned work about his experiences with King Feisal's Arab army as it fought its campaign to Damascus, "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom," has become a classic of twentieth century English literature. "Revolt in the Desert" is not a work of literature, or even a history of the campaign. It is an account of the experiences of one remarkable British officer's war from his own perspective. His was a fluid irregular's war of lightning raids, of blown up railway tracks and trains, ambuscade and - toward the end - of open battle as the defeated Ottoman Turkish Army were harried as they retreated northwards. Here are the Imperial Camel Corps, armoured car squadrons, daring RAF pilots and their aircraft, Ghurkha and Indian infantry and a bevy of "specialists" who are the forerunners of today's special forces like the SAS. It is, of course, unlike any other straightforward military memoir. Lawrence had an affection for the land, for nature and for the cause of the Arab people that went far beyond the mere liaison his task required. This permeates his writing which, though it provides a linear narrative of the campaign, is nevertheless a work of finely crafted penmanship which is a delight to read not only for military historians, but for everyone who appreciates great writing.

Revolt in the Desert

Century

As Angus Calder states in his introduction to this edition, Seven Pillars of Wisdom is one of the major statements about the fighting experience of the First World War'. Lawrence's younger brothers, Frank and Will, had been killed on the Western Front in 1915. Seven Pillars of Wisdom, written between 1919 and 1926, tells of the vastly different campaign against the Turks in the Middle East - one which encompasses gross acts of cruelty and revenge and ends in a welter of stink and corpses in the disgusting 'hospital' in Damascus. Seven Pillars of Wisdom is no 'Boys Own Paper' tale of Imperial triumph, but a complex work of high literary aspiration which stands in the tradition of Melville and Dostoevsky, and alongside the writings of Yeats, Eliot and Joyce.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom

Historical

Amereon Ltd

This ultra rare handbook on the Turkish Army, the 8th Provisional edition, was originally prepared in Cairo by T. E. Lawrence (later Lawrence of Arabia). It presents a detailed study of the organization, weapons, equipment and units of the Turkish Army in 1916. It includes a detailed Order of Battle for February 1916.

Handbook of the Turkish Army, 1916 (Reference Series, 11)

British General Staff

Philip Graves

Reference

The Battery Press, Inc.

Crusader Castles

Michael Haag

This is a new edition (the first since 1936) of the classic text on Crusader castles and their relation to Western military architecture written by T.E. Lawrence in 1910. This volume reproduces Lawrence's text, drawings, and photographs; provides a new introduction, critical notes, and index; and reassesses in light of recent scholarship Lawrence's controversial claim that Crusader castles of the 12th century owed more to castles in the West than to anything the Franks found in the East, and that western military architecture absorbed little or nothing from the Orient before the 12th century.

Immel Books

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