Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia - Michael Korda
Название книги: Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia
Автор книги: Michael Korda
55Страниц
20-21Часов на чтение
280 тыс.Всего слов
Язык книги: русский
Издательство: Harper Perennial
Город: New York
Год издания: 2011
ISBN: 9780061712623
Размер: 613 Кб
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The story of an epic life on a grand scale, Michael Korda’s Hero is a gripping, in-depth biography of the extraordinary, mysterious, and dynamic Englishman still famous the world over as “Lawrence of Arabia.” An Oxford scholar and archaeologist sent to Cairo as a young intelligence officer in 1916, Lawrence was a born leader, utterly fearless and seemingly impervious to pain and fatigue. A bold and ruthless warrior, he was the virtual inventor of modern insurgency and guerrilla warfare; a writer of genius who alternately sought and fled the limelight.
Korda digs deeper than anyone before him to expose the flesh-and-blood man and his contradictory nature—farsighted visionary; diplomat and kingmaker; shy, sensitive, and private man; genius military strategist; arguably the first modern “media celebrity” . . . and one of its first victims. Hero is the magisterial story of one of the most unique and fascinating figures of modern times—the arch-hero whose life was, at once, a triumph and a sacrifice.
