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Hatim, Dr Basil, 106

Haydar, Sharif’Ali, 166

Hedley, Colonel Coote, 122–3

Hejaz, 50, 51, 124, 153, 168–71

Britain and, 52–3

first mission to, 167–88

return to, 191

Helps to the Study of the Bible, 23

Herbert, Aubrey, 129, 132, 138, 144

Hittite(s)

cylinder-seals, 60, 69–71

as fantasy, 110

Hoare, Sam, 366

Hogarth, David, 58–61, 70, 101, 122, 141, 156, 355

at Carchemish, 78–90

Lawrence’s awe of, 84

in Cairo, 149

Holdich, Major G.V.W., 171

Holmes, Miss, 66–7, 102, 103–4

homosexuality, 26–7, 42–3, 76, 111–12, 233–4, 309

claimed as commonplace, 233

rape at Dara’a and, 297–8

approval of, 298

Hornby, Lieutenant, 311

al-Houl, crossing of, 235–9

Housman, Laurence, 26

Howaytat, as feud-ridden, 268

Huber, Charles, 176

Humber(ship), 264

Huon de Bordeaux, 28

ibn Hussain, Sharif ‘Ali, Emir of Mecca, 50–52, 106, 135, 165, 177–9, 210, 318

Bedu and Hejaz railway, 125, 156–7

letter from, 140

and British ‘decency’, 142–3

Hutaym, 154

Ibrahim Pasha, 105

al-Idrisi, 135, 136

Idylls of the King(Tennyson), 28

‘Intrusive’(Arab Bureau codename) 149

Irishness, 355

Isis(magazine), 113

al-Islam, Sheikh, 135

Ja’afar Pasha, 261, 264, 299, 300, 317

as Commander in Chief, 318

Jamal Pasha, 136, 137, 138, 156–7, 162

Jane, L.C., 40–41

Jarvis, C.S., 186

Jaudet, ‘Ali, 334

ibn Jazi, Hammayd, 227

ibn Jazi, Sheikh ‘Ar’ar, 226

ibn Jazi Howaytat, 248, 300

Jebayyil, 66–7, 102

Jeddah, 160, 167

Jefer, 249

Jerusalem, 298

Jesus College, Oxford, 40–42

Jews, 62–3

Jirwal barracks, attack at, 157–9

Jisr al-Hemmi, attack at, 276–7

Johns, Captain W.E., 359, 361–2

Joyce, Lieutenant-Colonel Pierce, 130, 184, 186, 209, 219, 229, 264, 316

in Cairo, 308

on Lawrence, 317

Juhayna, 154, 191

Junor, Lieutenant, 325

Justinian, Emperor, 113

Kalevala, 28

Kennington, Mrs Celandine, 12, 17

Kennington, Eric, 33, 377

Kenyon, Sir Frederick, 90, 93, 115

Kerak, 302

Khadra, surrender of, 253

Khairy Bey, 157

Khalfati, beating at, 107

Khallaf, 180

Khirbat as-Saba’ah, 304

Kilometre 149, raid at, 322–3, 328

Kilometre 589, raid at, 276

King-Crane commission, 345

Kirkbride, Lieutenant Alec, 85, 106, 186, 213, 307

on cruelty, 333, 334

Kitchener, Lord, 115, 118, 125, 126

death of, 149

knighthood, offer of, 343

Knightley, Philip, 370

Knowles, Pat, 376

Kut

stand at, 143–4

relief mission to, 147–8

surrender of, 148

Lama(ship), 168, 172

Laurie, Janet, 75–6

Lawrence, Arnold (Arnie) (brother), 25, 333

birth, 10

marriage, 30

Lawrence, Frank (brother), 24

birth, 10

death, 138

Lawrence, John (grandfather), 7

Lawrence, Montague Robert (Bob) (brother)

birth, 8, 23

domination by mother, 15–16

Lawrence, Sarah (mother), 7–8

qualities, 11–12

domination by, 15–17, 30

Lawrence, Thomas (father), 7–8, 13. 14

Thomas Chapman’s name-change to, 9

death, 355

Lawrence, Thomas Edward

family background, 7–10

birth, 10

childhood, 10–31

financial circumstances in childhood, 14–15

beatings by mother, 16

and pain, 17–18

emotional withdrawal, 18

schooldays, 21–31

at Boys’ High School, Oxford, 22–3

and masculinity, 25

and empathy, 25–6

and women, 27, 75–6

and medieval world, 27–8

family life, 29–30

lying and truth, 32–4, 70–74, 243, 291–5, 320

in Royal Garrison Artillery, 32–3

cycling, 35–6

in France, 36–9, 47–8

at Oxford University, 38–48

canoeing, 46

malaria, 48

and Young Turk’s revolution, 49–54

and Jews, 62–3

in Safed, 63

first shot at, 68

reports of murder of, 71

and ‘failure as sin’, 73

in Oxford, 75–9

proposal of marriage, 75–6

and Dahoum, 88–9, 109–11, 122

at Carchemish, 93–108

illness at Jarablus, 90–92

in Egypt, 93–108

at Kafr Ammar, 94–5

behaviour at Expedition House, 97–8

at Jebayyil with Dahoum, 102–4

speaking Arabic, 106

beating at Khalfati, 107

in Oxford with Dahoum, 109–11

last visit to Carchemish, 120–22

last sight of Dahoum, 122

in Cairo, 129–31

in Mesopotamia, 131–49

in Cairo Intelligence, 149

alienation of others, 131

his bravery, 138–9, 247–8

outbreak of Arab Revolt, 153–66

first mission to Hejaz, 167–88

dislike of ‘Abdallah, 170

camel-riding, 176

Sharif ‘Ali and, 177–9

first meeting with Feisal, 181–2

first closeness with Bedu, 185

as Propaganda Officer, 190

wearing Arab dress, 192–3

dislike of Vickery, 201

and executions, 211–14

sees desert as ally, 216

at Mudahrij, 222–4

meeting with ‘Ali and Othman, 232–4

crossing al-Houl, 235–9

search for Gasim, 236–9

and deception of Arabs, 240–41

and Arab Nationalism, 240

and ‘nobility’ of Arabs, 242–3

almost shot, 245

on bravery, 247–8

Mudowwara raid, 254–72

traverse of Sinai, 254–60

Allenby as father-figure, 261

Auda’s defection and, 262–3

and Operation Hedgehog, 263

attack on Mudowwara, 266–71

Yarmuk operation and Dara’a incident, 273–98

opportunities lost, 281

rape at Dara’a, 282–95

approval of homosexuality, 298

personal bodyguard and, 295–7

as personally unclean, 295

at Jaffa Gate, Jerusalem, 298

shoots Othman, 309

massacre at Tafas and, 313–14, 330–34

quarrel with Young, 316

wounded, 325–6

and Peace Conference, 343–58

offer of knighthood, 343

writing of Seven Pillars, 346–51

in Who’s Who, 352

discovery of his real name, 355

as John Hume Rosss, 359–60

in RAF, 359–66, 372, 375

at School of Photography, Farnborough, 365

as T.E. Shaw, 367

enters army, 367

thoughts of suicide, 372

and speed, 374

death, 376–7

Lawrence, William (brother), 24, 110

birth, 10

death, 142

‘Lawrence of Arabia’, birth of myth, 173

Lawrence of Arabia (film), 332

Layard, Henry, 23

Lean, David, 332

Leeds, Edward, 36, 58, 69, 71, 77, 79, 97, 119, 122, 142, 272

on Dahoum, 110

on cruelty, 334

Liddell Hart, Basil, 14, 20, 25, 32, 58, 122, 181, 182, 292, 305, 363

honours and, 343

Lloyd, George, 57, 129, 132, 133, 138, 277

Lloyd George, D. (prime minister), 345

Lockman, J.N., 294

Logan, W.M., 131

love, 76

lying (and truth), 33–4, 246, 291–5, 302–6, 320, 333–5

to Bedu, 243

Sinai crossing, 259–60

food-tray, 275

at Dara’a, 282–95

Hubert Young, 288

personal bodyguard, 295–7

M.31(ship), 194

Ma’an, 119

Mack, John, 291, 334, 371

Mafraq, attack on, 328–9

malaria, 48, 64, 101–2, 141

Mamluks, 53–4

ibn Mansour, Muhsin, 160

al-Mansur, Ahmad, 180

bin Mansur, Ahmad, 165

mapmaking, 123

in Cairo, 131

masculinity, idealization of, 25

masochism, 17, 33, 107–8, 179, 332, 354, 370

al-Masri, Aziz ‘Ali, 164, 318

Mata’ab, 301

Mather, H.E., 32, 46

Maxwell, General Sir John, 133, 148

McGee, Sergeant-Major, 359

McMahon, Sir Hugh, 129, 137, 141, 144

Hussain’s letter and, 140

capture of Aqaba and, 228

Mecca, 153

Medforce, 137–8, 142

medieval world, 27–8

Medina, 215–17, 229

Feisal at, 182

Fakhri Pasha evacuates, 209

Meinertzhagen, Richard, 292, 294

Meissner Pasha, 124

Mesopotamia, 128–49

division of, 344

Meyricke Exhibition, Jesus College, 39–40

Mezerib, 326

al-Mezra’a, attack at, 306

Milli-Kurds, 105

mines, 220

at Mudahrij, 222–4

near Mudowwara, 268–9

at Kilometre 589, 276

at Ramleh, 312

at Nasib, 327

at Kilometre149, 328

Mint, The(Lawrence), 350

Miranshah, Afghanistan, 372

al-Misri, Azia ‘Ali, 168

Mohammad, Prophet, 53, 173

Moreton cemetery, 377

Morris, Jan, 21

Morris, William Henry (Lord Nuffield), 21, 35, 43–4, 139

Morrison, Walter, 101

Mousa, Suleiman, 246, 305

ibn Mubeiriq, Sheikh Hussain, 164, 175

Mudahrij, Lawrence at, 222–4

Mudowwara

raid on, 254–72

Lawrence’s choice of, 264

attack on, 266–71

al-Mukhlis, Maulud, 181, 183, 192

Murphy, Lieutenant, 322

Murray, Sir Archibald, 148–9, 169, 352

Murray, Edward, 367

Murray, General, 171, 189–90

Feisal writing to, 195–6

Aqaba and, 228

Musil, Alois, 275

Muttar, 154

an-Nahabi, ‘Abdallah, 297

Nahi Bey

homosexual rape at Dara’a, 283–4

as pederast, 285

Nakhl Mubarak, battle at, 194–5

Naqab ash-Shtar, 275

Nasib, railway at, 327

Nasir, Sharif, 334

and attack on Aqaba, 231

search for Gasim, 237

and capture of Tafilah, 299–300

Necho, Pharaoh, 81

Nelson, Flight-Lieutenant, 362

New, E.H., 61

Newcombe, Captain Stewart, 115, 116, 118, 129, 132, 133, 138, 190

Nicolson, Sir Harold, 19

Nietzsche, 19

Nineveh, excavation of, 23

Nixon, Sir John, 143

nobility, ideas of, 110

Nuffield, Lord (William Henry Morris), 21, 35, 43–4, 139

Nural-Bahr(ship), 209

Obeyd, Sheikh, 176–8

Ocampo, Victoria, 15, 16

Odeh, Reverend Nasar, 61

Odyssey, translation of, 374

Officers’ Training Corps, Oxford University, 58

‘Old Man’, invention of, 367–71

‘Old Syria’, Lawrence and, 240

Oman, Sir Charles, 41

Operation Hedgehog, 263

Orientalism, 112

Othman (‘Farraj’)

meets Lawrence, 232–4

death of, 308–9

Ottoman Empire

beginning of end, 49

entering war, 122

war declared on Britain, 127

Owen, Wilfred, 146

Oxford, 21, 38–48, 55–60, 75–9

family move to, 10

Dahoum at, 109–11

Hammoudi at, 109–11

pain, fear of, 17–18

Parker, Lieutenant-Colonel A.C., 141–2, 166, 172

Peace Conference, Paris, 343–58

Peake, Fred, 311, 321, 322

Pearson, Major Hugh, 207

Petra, 119

Petrie, Professor Flinders, 59, 94

Philby, St John, 350

Pilgrim Road, 279

Pirie-Gordon, Harry, 61

Pisani, Captain, 263, 319, 324

Poole, Reginald Lane, 41, 77

Portrait of Gray(Scott Tuke), painting, 33

press (media), 351

printing, 44–5

Prys-Jones, A.G., 41

‘Purity Campaign’, 9

Qadesh Barnea, 116

al-Qadi, Dakhilallah, 218–19, 221

at Mudahrij, 223

al-Qadi, Mohammad, 220

al-Qadir, ‘Abd, 278

desertion of, 279

Qusayma, 115–16

Raas Baalbek, 244, 246

Rabegh, 164–5, 176, 196–8

danger to, 168–9

Rajputana(ship), 373

rape, at Dara’a, 282–95

ar-Rashid, Hirun, 53

ibn Rashid, 136, 234

Raswan, Carl, 245

Raven(ship), 196

Rawlinson, General, 123

Reinach, Salomon, 78

reverse exhibitionism, 43, 360

Revolt in the Desert(Lawrence), 349

Reynolds-Ball, E.A., 61

Rhys, Sir John, 61, 72

Richards, Vyvyan, 36, 42–4, 57, 114, 120

and homosexuality, 233

on Raas Baalbek visit, 246

on cruelty, 333

‘Rightly Minded Caliphs’, 53

ar-Rikabi, ‘Ali Ridha Pasha, 245, 337

Robertson, General, 169, 260

Rolfe, F.W., 26

Rolls, S.C., 311, 322, 323

Roots of the Mountains, The(Morris), 45–6

Rosetta Stone, 80

Ross, John Hume, Lawrence as, 359–60

Ross, Major, 196

Royal Air Force, 319, 359–66, 372, 375

Royal Garrison Artillery, 32, 33

Ruskin, John, 40, 55–6

sadism, 332

Safed, 63

Safita, castle of, 67

Sahyun, castle of, 67

as-Sa’id, Mohammad, 339

as-Sa’id, Nuri, 164, 315, 319, 322, 325, 338

ibn Sa’ud, 136

ibn Salem, Mohammad, 275

Salih, Sheikh, 200

Sannaiyat, battle at, 147

Sardast, Rasim, 194, 210, 301

Sargon the Assyrian, 81

scars, claims of, 294–5

Scott-Higgins, 321, 322

Selim the Grim, Sultan, 54, 117

Senussi, 164

Seven Pillars of Wisdom(Lawrence), 167, 178, 179, 181, 211–12, 213

‘Ali and Othman in, 232

and search for Gasim, 237

and deception of Arabs, 241

al-Bakri in, 242

on Raas Baalbek visit, 246

Sinai crossing in, 255

and attack on Mudowwara, 267–8

and rape at Dara’a, 282–95

lying and truth in, 292–4

and personal bodyguard, 296

and Tafilah, 302

writing of, 346–51

sexual morals, ‘Purity Campaign’ and, 9

ash-Sha’alan, Nuri, 227, 245, 317

ash-Sha’alan, Trad, 324

Shah, Jemadar Hassan, 279

Shakir, Sharif, 218, 219–20

Shallala (Lawrence’s Spring), 265

Shararat, 154

Sharraf, Sharif, 192

Shaw, Charlotte, 17, 45, 56, 76, 247, 294, 295, 310, 361, 371

Shaw, George Bernard, 37, 291, 349, 354, 362, 363

Shaw, T.E., Lawrence as, 367

Sidon, 64

Simpson, Colin, 370

Sinai, 115–27, 259–60

traverse of, 254–60

Slieve Foy(ship), 253

Smith, George, 78, 80

Snow, John, 29

socialism, 78

speed, importance of, 374

sporting prowess, role of, 24–5

Staples, George, 335

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 9

Stewart, Desmond, 76

Stirling, Major Frank, 255, 272

and rape at Dara’a, 285

at Dara’a, 336

St Martin’s Church, Wareham, 377

Stones of Venice, The(Ruskin), 40

Storrs, Ronald, 35, 129, 168–70, 172–3, 291

‘Abdallah and, 126

relationship with Lawrence, 133–4

Hussain’s letter and, 140

and cowardice of Bedu, 195

Strange Case of Dr jekyll and Mr Hyde, The(Stevenson), 9

Suez Canal, 115, 126, 134

Jamal Pasha’s attack on, 138

suicide, 372

Sulayman the Magnificent, 54

Swann, Air Vice-Marshal Sir Oliver, 364

Swinburne, Algernon, 76

Sydney Smith, Clare, 27, 42, 56, 347

Sykes-Picot agreement, 143, 210, 240, 245, 317, 343

Syria

and Oxford, 55–74

and Britain, 109–114

division of, 344

Tafas

massacre at, 313–14, 330–34

in Seven Pillars, 333

Tafilah, 299–310

Ta’if, 160–62

Taleb, Sayid, 145

Tel Ahmar, 90

Tel ash-Shahm, 310–12

Tel ash-Shehab

attack on, 278–9, 279–81

bridge at, 326–7

Tennyson, Alfred Lord, 28

Thesiger, Wilfred

on homosexuality, 233–4

on cruelty, 332

Thomas, Lowell, 241, 354

lecturing on Lawrence, 351–2

Tigris Corps, 147

Towayha, as raiders, 226–7

Townshend, Major-General Sir

Charles, 143, 148

Trenchard, Lord, 359, 360

as father-figure, 14

Tuke, Henry Scott, 26, 33

Turkey, coup d’йtat in, 49

Twenty-Seven Articles(Lawrence), 208

al-‘Ula, assault on, 229 ‘Umayyads, 53

Umm Surab, 327

Umm Tayeh, 322, 323

Uranians, 26, 233

Urfa, 69–71

‘Utayba, 154

Vehib Bey, 124, 136

vengeance, Bedu and, 154

Vickery, Major Charles, 199, 201–2

and capture of Aqaba, 228

Victoria Cross, 247

Vilayet system, 123–4

von Stotzingen, Baron Othmar, 157

Wadi ‘Ais, 204–25

Wadi Hafira, 273

Wadi Hamdh, 204–25

Wadi Ithm, 118

Wadi Khitan, shooting at, 211–14

Wadi Musa, 299

Wadi Rum, Lawrence at, 265

Wadi Safra, capture of, 191

Wahid, Haj, 81, 92, 93, 94, 97, 104–5

and malaria, 101

Wasta, 180

Wavell, A.P., 298

Wejh, 189–203

Wemyss, Admiral, 189–90, 199, 202

‘White Man’s Burden’, 86, 112

White, Stephen, 287

Who’s Who, Lawrence in, 352

Wilde, Oscar, 26–7

Wilderness of Zin, The(Lawrence and

Woolley), 122

will-power, 16

Williams, A.T.P., 42, 46

Williamson, Henry, 375, 376

Wilson, Lieutenant-Colonel Cyril, 165, 168–70

and attack on Aqaba, 231

Wilson, Jeremy, 76, 291, 296

rape at Dara’a and, 297–8

Wilson, President, 345

Wingate, Sir Reginald, 133, 159, 165, 189–90

Winterton, Lord, 319, 328–9

With Lawrence in Arabia(Thomas), 372

Wood, Lieutenant, 277

Wool Hospital, 377

Woolley, Leonard, 39, 84, 86, 95–6, 105, 106, 115, 121, 132, 138, 208

as director at Carchemish, 93

at Birejik, 100

Yahya, Imam, 136

Yanbu’, and Wejh, 189–203

Yarmuk operation, and Dara’a

incident, 273–98

Yeats-Brown, Francis, 37

Yells, Sergeant, 264, 269, 270–71, 271

Young Turks’ revolution, 49–54

Young, Captain Hubert, 111, 145, 162, 292, 297

lying and truth about, 288

as understudy of Lawrence, 315

quarrel with Lawrence, 316, 322, 324

and train explosions, 326

and honours, 343

Younghusband, General, 147

Zaki Bey, 183

Zakkari, Ahmad, 121

Zayd, Sharif, 164–5, 191, 300, 306–7, 344

CONTENTS

List of Plates

List of Maps

Introduction: The Valley of the Moon

PART ONE: THE WANDERER, 1888–1916

1. Apparent Queen Unveiled Her Peerless Light

2. Dominus Illuminatio Mea

3. Nothing Which Qualified Him to be an Ordinary Member of Society

4. The Sultan Drank Tea as Usual

5. A Rather Remarkable Young Man

6. Mr Hogarth is Going Digging

7. The Baron in the Feudal System

8. Peace in Mesopotamia Such as Has Not Been Seen for Generations

9. The Insurance People Have Nailed Me Down

10. Cairo is Unutterable Things

PART TWO: THE WARRIOR, 1916–1918

11. The Biggest Thing in the Near East Since 1550

12. Fallen Like a Sword into Their Midst

13. Not an Army But a World is Moving upon Wejh

14. I Do Not Suppose Any Englishman Before Ever Had Such a Place

15. It is Not Known What are the Present Whereabouts of Captain Lawrence

16. An Amateurish Buffalo-Billy Sort of Performance

17. Ahmad ibn Baqr, a Circassian from Qunaytra

18. The Most Ghastly Material to Build into a Design

19. My Dreams Puffed out Like Candles in the Strong Wind of Success

PART THREE :THE MAGICIAN, 1918–1935

20. Colonel Lawrence Still Goes on; Only I Have Stepped Out of the Way

21. In Speed We Hurl Ourselves Beyond the Body

Acknowledgements

Notes on the Text

Bibliography

Index

LIST OF PLATES

COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHS

Photography by Mariantonietta Peru

1. Lawrence’s Spring, Jordan

2. Pharaoh’s Island, off Sinai

3. Ruins of a traditional house, Yanbu’, Saudi Arabia

4. Ruins of mud houses, Hamra village, Saudi Arabia

5. Fallen locomotive, Hediyya station, Saudi Arabia

6. Hediyya bridge

7. Guweira plain from the Nagb ash-Shtar pass, Jordan

8. Atwi station, Jordan

9. Tent in the Wadi Rum, Jordan

10. Howaytat woman, Wadi Rum

11. The author with Sabah ibn ‘Iid at Mudowwara well, Jordan

12. Loading a camel, Mudowwara well, Jordan

13. Wrecked railway wagon, Mudowwara

14. Bedui filling a waterskin

15. Bedui of the Haywat, Jordan

BLACK AND WHITE

1. T. E. Lawrence aged about ten or eleven, a studio photograph in Oxford, c.1900

2. Sarah Lawrence with her children, in the porch of their home at Fawley, c.1894

3. The City of Oxford High School for Boys. Lawrence surrounded by his form mates and their teacher, c.1900

4. Portrait of Grayby Henry Scott Tuke

5. In the summer of 1909 Lawrence visited Kala’at al-Husn (Crak des Chevaliers)

6. The castle of Sahyun

7. The Norman keep at Safita, and Harran

8. Lawrence with Leonard Woolley at Carchemish

9. Carchemish

10. Salim Ahmad, nicknamed Dahoum, and Sheikh Hammoudi at Carchemish, 1911

11. Workmen at Carchemish, 1911

12. Lawrence in Arab dress

13. Lieut-Col. Stewart Newcombe, Royal Engineers

14. Camels, as ridden by Lawrence

15. Sharif ‘Abdallah and Ronald Storrs at Jeddah, October 1916

16. Sharif Feisal’s army falling back on Yanbu’ on the coast of the Red Sea, December 1916

17. Feisal’s camp at dawn, December 1916

18 and 19. Feisal and his army captured Wejh in January 1917 and made it their headquarters for the next six months

20. Auda Abu Tayyi and his kinsmen, photographed by Lawrence in May 1917

21. Auda and Sharif Nasir at Wadi Sirhan, June 1917

22. Mohammad adh-Dhaylan with other Howaytat tribesmen

23. A Turkish patrol repairing a stretch of railway track near Ma’an

24. The bridge at Tel ash-Shehab

25. Nasib al-Bakri, one of the founders of the Arab Revolt

26. Dakhilallah al-Qadi, hereditary law-giver of the Juhayna

27. The capture of Aqaba, 6 July 1917, photographed by Lawrence

28. Aqaba fort from inland

29. The interior of Aqaba fort

30. Ja’afar Pasha, Feisal and Pierce Joyce at Wadi Quntilla, August 1917

31. Nuri as-Sa’id

32. The gate tower at Azraq

33. Turkish prisoners near Tafilah fort, January 1918

34. Sharif Zayd and other Arab leaders with captured Austrian guns at Tafilah

35. Lawrence at the army headquarters in Cairo, 1918

36. General Allenby stepping out of his armoured car in Damascus, 3 October 1918

37. The Hejaz Camel Corps rounding up Bedouin pillagers after the capture of Damascus, 2 October 1918

38. Lawrence by Augustus John, 1919

39. Feisal, photographed at the same time

40. Gertrude Bell, Sir Herbert Samuel, Lawrence and Sharif ‘Abdallah in 41. Amman, April 1921

41. Lawrence by William Roberts, 1922

42. Lawrence as Private T. E. Shaw of the Royal Tank Corps.

43. Lawrence’s 1000cc Brough Superior motorcycle

44. The music room at Clouds Hill

45. Lawrence’s funeral at Moreton church in Dorset

46. Lawrence’s effigy in the old Anglo-Saxon church of St Martin at Wareham in Dorset

ILLUSTRATION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The author and publishers are grateful to the following for permission to reproduce black and white photographs:

The Lawrence Estate and the Bodleian Library, Oxford, for nos. 1, 2, 3, 42, 43

The Trustees of the Imperial War Museum, London, for nos. 8–20, 22–24, 26–34, 36, 37, 40

The National Trust Photographic Library for no. 4

The Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King’s College, London, for nos. 5, 6, 7, 21, 25, 35, 39, 44

St Martin’s, Wareham, for no. 46 (both photographs)

The National Portrait Gallery, London, for no. 38

The Visitors of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, for no. 41

LIST OF MAPS

1. General map of Greater Syria in 1909

2. Hejaz Operations, 1916-17

3. Syrian Operations, 1917-18

4. Medina, 1916


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