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302 “idle to pretend”:Ibid., 117.

305 “You very good man”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 441.

309 “a ladder of tribes”:Lawrence, SP, 367.

309 “tip and run” tactics:Ibid., 368.

311 It is a tribute to Lawrence’s skill:Ibid., 367-383.

312 “in a chilled voice”:Ibid., 387.

312 “a squadron of airplanes”:Ibid., 388.

313 “his best man present”:Ibid., 392.

313 “strange flat of yellow mud”:Ibid., 398.

317 “Out of the darkness”:Ibid., 407.

317 “a shambles of the group”:Ibid., 408.

320 “I hope when this nightmare ends”:Lawrence, Letters from T. E. Lawrence to E. T. Leeds, 106.

321 “He who gives himself to the possession”:Lawrence, SP, 11.

325 “African knobkerri”:Ibid., 429.

325 “on a series of identical steel bridges”:Ibid., 432.

326 “unfit for active service”:Ibid., 433.

329 “could outstrip a trotting camel”:Ibid.

330 “luscious”:Ibid., 447.

331 “They had lost two men”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 450-455.

331 “war, tribes and camels without end”:Lawrence, SP, 450.

331 “like the mutter of a distant”:Ibid., 450.

332 “Beware of Abd el Kader”:Ibid.

333 “held what might well be the world’s record”:Ibid., 453.

333 “some 40,000 troops of all arms”:Wavell, Palestine Campaigns, 117.

333 “dismounted and cleaned up”:Ibid., 123.

334 “General Allenby’s plan”:Ibid.

334 “nothing would persuade”:Lawrence, SP, 462.

334 “steeped in an unfathomable pool”:Ibid., 464.

335 “I only hope TEL”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 455, citingD. G. Hogarth to his wife, November 11, 1917, Hogarth Papers, St. Antony’s College, Oxford.

336 The fumes from the explosive:Lawrence, SP, 471.

338 “pointing and staring”:Ibid., 478.

339 “ran like a rabbit”:Ibid., 481.

339 “in front of [him]”:Ibid., 483.

340 “gashing his tongue deeply”:Ibid., 485.

340 he searched for consolation:Knightley and Simpson, Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia, 263.

341 “an outlaw with a price”:Lawrence, SP, 493.

341 “a trimmed beard”:Ibid.

342 “a lame and draggled pair”:Ibid., 495.

343 “The garrison commander at Deraa”:Knightley and Simpson, Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia, 217.

344 “They kicked me to the landing”:Lawrence, SP, 498-502.

349 “About that night”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 739; T. E. Lawrence to Charlotte Shaw, March 26, 1924, British Library, London, Add. MS 45903.

351 “he seemed like a wraith”:Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia, 293.

352 “the most memorable event of the war”: Lawrence, SP, 508.

352 “all institutions holy to Christians”:Adelson, Mark Sykes, 245.

353 “had stuck another medal”:Lawrence, Home Letters, 345.

354 “seated at the same table”:Thomas, With Lawrence in Arabia, 3-6.

chapter eight1918: Triumph and Tragedy

355 “Two names had come to dominate”:Storrs, Orientations,318.

356 “When he was in the middle of the stage”:Arnold Lawrence (ed.), T. E. Lawrence by His Friends, 245.

358 “twenty thousand pounds alive”:Lawrence, SP, 520.

358 “hard riders”:Ibid., 526.

358 “The British at Aqaba”:Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia, 207-208.

358 He also used his bodyguard as shock troops:Ibid., 209.

359 “almost level with the south end”:Ibid., 210.

360 “simultaneously from the east”:Lawrence, SP, 513.

360 “an amnesty for the Arab Revolt”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 469.

361 “Jam Catholics on the Holy Places”:Ibid., 467, from Sir T. B. M. Sykes to Sir F. R. Wingate, for G. F. Clayton, telegram 75, 16.1.1918. FO 371/3383 fo. 14.

361 Lawrence spent the early days of January:Ibid., 475.

362 “neither my impulses nor my convictions”:Lawrence, SP, 529.

362 “let our man go free”:Ibid.

363 “I had not expected anything”:Ibid., 530.

364 The Turkish garrison:Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia, 214.

365 “The defences of Tafila”:Ibid.

365 “three… battalions of infantry”:Ibid., 215.

366 “To make war upon rebellion”:Ibid., 135.

366 “There is nothing I desire”:Ibid., 133.

368 “rushed to save their goods”:Lawrence, SP, 538.

368 “I would rake up all the old maxims”:Ibid., 539.

370 Not many officers:Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia, 217.

370 “the climb would warm me”: Army Quarterly,Vol. II, no. 1, April 1929, 26.

371 “The bullets slapped off it deafeningly”:Ibid., 28.

372 “a Damascene, a sardonic fellow”:Lawrence, SP, 149.

373 “in the purest classical tradition”:Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia,382, 384.

373 “In the end”: Army Quarterly,Vol. II, no. 1, April 1929, 30.

373 Arab losses were about twenty-five killed:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 476.

374 As was so often the case with Lawrence:Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia, 220.

374 “brilliant mind”: Lawrence, SP, 579.

375 “the complete ruin of my plans”:Ibid., 568.

376 “will was gone”:Ibid., 572.

376 “that pretence to lead the national uprising”:Ibid., 571.

376 “made a mess of things”:Ibid.

377 “a very sick man”:Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia, 233.

377 “a cog himself”:Ibid.

377 “solitary in the ranks”:Title of a book by H. Montgomery Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks: Lawrence of Arabia as Airman and Private Soldier(London: Constable, 1977).

378 “letting[him] off”:Lawrence, SP, 752.

379 “to knock Turkey out of the war”:Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia, 224.

379 In the end all he would get:Ibid.

379 “to take up again my mantle”:Lawrence, SP, 572.

379 “where the Arabs would easily defeat [them]”:Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia, 227.

380 “between pincers”:Ibid.

380 “that skirt-wearers”:Lawrence, SP, 574.

381 “reeling backwards on Amiens”:Wavell, Palestine Campaigns, 183.

382 Lawrence’s “understudy”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 491.

382 “Lawrence really counted more”:Young, The Independent Arab, 143, quoted in Wilson, Lawrence, 491.

384 “the Grand Cross of the Order”:Thomas, With Lawrence in Arabia, 391.

384 “[sailed] fifteen hundred miles”:Ibid., 111.

384 “Hindus, Somalis, Berberines”:Ibid., 118.

384 “was kicked overboard”:Ibid., 120.

384 “Lawrence himself came down”:Ibid., 121.

385 “To accompany Lawrence and his body-guard”:Ibid., 183.

386 “was never in the Arab firing line”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia,494, from T. E. Lawrence to E. M. Forster, June 17, 1925, King’s College, Cambridge.

386 “My cameraman, Mr. Chase”:Thomas, With Lawrence in Arabia, 369.

387 “the rose-red city”:Mona Mackay, quoted ibid., 218.

388 “openness and honesty in their love”: Lawrence, SP, 581.

390 “these bonds between man and man”:Ibid., 582.

390 “privately… implored Jaafar”:Ibid., 584.

390 “Turk was man enough not to shoot me”:Ibid., 590.

391 “Mitfleh with honeyed words”:Ibid., 591.

393 “For this reason”:Ibid., 598.

394 “a grown man”:Knightley and Simpson, Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia, 163.

394 “in sight of Maan”:Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia, 232.

394 “Greetings, Lurens”:Ibid., 234.

395 “like the hypnotic influence”:Ibid.

396 “Only once or twice”:Lawrence, SP, 630.

397 “To some degree Seven Pillars of Wisdom”:Holroyd, Bernard Shaw, 1918-1950: The Lure of Fantasy,Vol. III, 86.

397 “an uncommon face”: Saint Joan(New York: Random House, 1952), 62.

398 Lawrence seems to have been involved:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 511.

399 “without Feisal’s knowledge”:Ibid., 512.

399 “at Arab Headquarters”:Ibid., 513.

399 “almost feminine charm”:Pakenham, Peace by Ordeal, 49.

400 “under British colours”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 514.

400 “Mohammed Said, Abd el Kader’s brother”:Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia, 254.

401 “Relations between Lawrence and ourselves”:Ibid., 251.

401 “Lawrence… could certainly not have done”:Young, The Independent Arab, 157.

402 “no later than September 16th”:Ibid., 205.

402 “three men and a boy”:Lawrence, SP, 462.

402 “on the condition that”:Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia, 250.

403 “emphasizing the mystical enchantment”:Ibid., 257.

404 “a mixed sense of ease”:Ibid., 258.

405 “I could flatter”:Ibid., 262.

405 “the desert had become”:Ibid., 263.

406 “He had removed”:Ibid., 264.

406 “it was ever [his] habit”:Ibid., 266.

407 “creating dust columns”:Ibid., 274.

407 “12,000 sabres”:Wavell, Palestine Campaigns, 195.

407 “about twelve hundred strong”:Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia, 268.

407 “solo effort”:Ibid., 269.

408 “crammed to the gunwale”:Ibid.

408 “the cover of the last ridge”:Ibid., 270.

408 “a fastidious artist”:Wavell, Palestine Campaigns, 203.

408 “first have to tear down”:Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia, 270.

409 “rushed down to find Peake’s”:Ibid.

410 “the telegraph, thus severing”:Ibid., 271.

410 “a lurid blaze”:Ibid., 273.

411 “7,000 yards”:Wavell, Palestine Campaigns, 207.

411 “had broken in hopeless”:Ibid.

412 “clerks, orderlies etc.”:von Sanders, Five Years in Turkey, 282.

412 “Nothing is known of the climate”:Ibid., 282, fn 184.

412 “Early on September 21st”:Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia, 275.

413 “lit up by the green shower”:Ibid., 278.

414 “found the great man at work”:Lawrence, SP, 753.

414 Allenby personally briefed Lawrence:Wavell, Palestine Campaigns, 216-217.

415 “noting the two charred German bodies”:Lawrence, SP, 758.

415 “packed into the green Vauxhall”:Ibid.

415 “ ‘Indeed and at last’”:Ibid., 759.

416 “still regarded him”:Young, The Independent Arab, 243.

417 “Ghazale by storm”:Lawrence, SP, 771.

418 “When we got within sight”:Ibid., 775-780.

426 “I asked Lawrence to remove”:Barrow, The Fire of Life, 211.

427 “At least my mind”:Lawrence, SP, 784.

427 “tappedThe Seven Pillars”: Barrow, The Fire of Life,215.

428 “I said, ‘This morning’ ”:Lawrence, SP, 785.

428 “Auda was waiting for them”:Ibid., 788.

430 “A movement like a breath”:Ibid., 793.

431 “jumped in to drive them apart”:Ibid., 794.

431 “to wash out the insult”:Ibid., 795.

432 “could not recognize”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 565.

433 “I had been born free”:Lawrence, SP, 802.

433 “burst open shops”:Ibid., 803.

434 “squalid with rags”:Ibid., 805.

434 “There might be thirty there”:Ibid.

435 “asked [him] shortly”:Ibid., 809.

435 “and stalked off”:Ibid.

436 “triumphal entry”:Young, The Independent Arab, 255.

436 “a French Liaison Officer”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 567-568.

437 “declined to have a French Liaison Officer”:Ibid., 567.

437 “turned to Lawrence”:Ibid.

437 “he would not work”:Chauvel, quoted in Knightley and Simpson, Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia, 96.

chapter nineIn the Great World

439 “that younger successor”:J. T. Shotwell, At the Paris Peace Conference(New York: 1937), 121. Note that Shotwell, a member of the American delegation, was off by two years—Lawrence was in fact thirty at this time, though he did look far younger.

440 “to arrange for an audience”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 572.

440 “a man dropping a heavy load”:Ibid.

440 profoundly sad:Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 256.

442 “a huge fellow”:Aldington, Lawrence of Arabia, 250-251.

443 “on or about October 24th”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 573.

444 “under the control” of Feisal:Ibid., 575.

445 “chafed at”:Graves and Liddell Hart (eds.), T. E. Lawrence to His Biographers, 108.

448 “He explained personally”:Ibid., 106.

448 “if a man has to serve”:Ibid., 107.

450 “rather taken aback”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 578.

450 “he had made certain promises”:Graves and Liddell Hart (eds.), T. E. Lawrence to His Biographers, 107.

451 “if it is behind a British”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 579.

452 “He wore his Arab robes”:Winston Churchill, Great Contemporaries, 157.

452 “conversations about the Arabs”:Ibid., 581. 455 “Without in the least wishing”:Ibid., 585.

455 “historic duty towards the peoples of Syria”:Ibid., 584.

456 “You do not want to divide the loot”:MacMillan, Paris 1919, 386.

456 “it was essential that Feisal”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 586.

458 “evilgenius”:MacMillan, Paris 1919, 389.

458 “You must be quite candid”:Aldington, Lawrence of Arabia, 256.

460 As the two leaders stood together:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 589;Rose, Chaim Weizmann, 199.

461 Curzon spoke scathingly:Ibid., 590.

461 “incessant friction”:Ibid., 591.

462 “but we must not put the knife”:Ibid.

462 “a member of Feisal’s staff”:Ibid., 592.

462 Thus Lawrence was placed:Ibid., 410.

462 “We lived many lives”:Lawrence, SP, 6

463 “like a choir boy”:General Йdouard Brйmond, Le Hedjaz dans la Guerre Mondiale, 317, quoted in Aldington, Lawrence of Arabia, 257.

463 “civic functions”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 593.

467 “If the Arabs are established”:Weizmann, Letters and Papers, Vol. IX, Series A, reproduced images between 86 and 87.

467 “ ‘He’ll say that he doesn’t’”:Quoted in Knightley and Simpson, Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia, 120.

468 “the Great Powers”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 597.

470 “red weals on his ribs”:Meinertzhagen, Middle East Diary, 52.

470 “a silent, masterful man”:Lawrence, SP, 429.

470 “his mind”:Meinertzhagen, Middle East Diary, 39.

471 “There is nothing funny about toilet paper”:Ibid., 40.

471 “the most picturesque”:Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 264.

471 “He has been described”:Shotwell, At the Paris Peace Conference, 231.

473 “in flowing robes of dazzling white”:Lloyd George, Memoirs of the Peace Conference, Vol. II, 673.

473 with a curved gold dagger:MacMillan, Paris 1919, 291.

474 “President Wilson then made a suggestion”:Toynbee, quoted in Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 267.

474 “When he came to the end”:Toynbee, Acquaintances, 182-183.

475 “What did you get that fellow”:MacMillan, Paris 1919, 391.

475 “Poor Lawrence”:Alexander Mihailovitj, Nar Jag Var Storfuste Av Ryssland,314-315, trans. Gunilla Jainchill, quoted in Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder,268.

475 “the lines of resentment”:Nicolson, Peace Making, 142.

476 Wilson also turned down all suggestions:Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 269.

477 “control of personal feelings”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 610.

477 fifty big Handley-Page bombers:Ibid., 611.

478 “a second Gordon”:Ibid., 608.

479 proclaimed him “Lawrence of Arabia”:Ibid., 622.

480 The show included not only the film:Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 274-275.

481 “summoned Mr. and Mrs. Thomas”: London Times, November 20, 1919.

483 “Wouldn’t it be fun”:Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 271.

485 “the antiquities and ethnology”:Ibid., 277.

485 “our troubles with the French”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 617.

485 “that Lawrence will never be employed”:Ibid.

485 “Colonel Lawrence has no Military status”:NA General Staff WO M.I.2. B, July 21, 1919.

485 “I have tried again and again”:NA LA 1107, December 5, 1919.

487 “use his influence with Feisal”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 621.

chapter ten“Backing into the Limelight”: 1920-1922

490 “it might trouble him”:Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 481.

491 a terrible “row”:Ibid.

491 “bear a brave face”:Lawrence, Home Letters, 304.

491 At times he broke out of his depression:Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 287.

493 “Bow Street was jammed”:Lowell Thomas to “Ronnie,” March 29, 1956, Lowell Thomas Papers, Marist College.

493 “he would blush crimson”:Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 276.

493 “Thomas Lawrence, the archaeologist”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 624.

494 “In the history of the world”:Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 287.

495 “Colonel C. E. Florence”:Aldington, Lawrence of Arabia, 352.

496 The truth is quite simple:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 627.

496 an “official” one:Ibid.

497 “95% of the book in thirty days”:Ibid., 628.

497 At one point he wrote 30,000 words:Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 84.

499 “flying suit”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 629.

500 “the book had now assumed”:Ibid., 630.

501 “boy-scout”:Ibid., 635.

501 Among the dozen or so alternative ideas:Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 284.

502 His scholarship from All Souls:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 637.

502 Thomas Lawrence had left:Ibid., 637-638.

503 Perhaps because he had overestimated:Ibid., 637.

503 Neither Will nor Frank had lived:Ibid., 637-638.

504 make him look “silly”:Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 65.

504 This did not prevent him from buying rare:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 641.

505 “too sparsely peopled”:Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 291.

505 “learning opportunities”:Ibid., 634.

506 “one never knows how many”:Storrs, Orientations, 505.

506 Far from being extreme:Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 293.

507 Some idea of the aura of celebrity:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 633.

509 “to relieve Curzon”:Graves and Liddell Hart (eds.), T. E. Lawrence to His Biographers, 354.

510 he had “a virgin mind”:Young, The Independent Arab, 324.

511 Churchill’s omnipresent private secretary:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 643.

511 Though it was not appreciated at the time:Ibid., 644.

513 “little Lawrence”:Meinertzhagen, Middle East Diary, 55-56.

513 Lawrence became a civil servant:Graves and Liddell Hart (eds.), T. E. Lawrence to His Biographers, 143.

513 “Talk of leaving things”:Ibid.

514 “You must take risks”:Ibid.

515 “Lawrence can bear comparison”:Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia, 384.

515 “Our most trusted”:Graves and Liddell Hart (eds.), T. E. Lawrence to His Biographers, 131.

517 The western border with Syria:Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace, 503.

518 “with 30 officers and 200 Bedouins”:Ibid., 504.

518 “living with Abdulla”:Lawrence, Letters, Brown (ed.), 197.

518 “suspicious of his influence”:Abdullah, Memoirs, 170.

518 “He was certainly a strange character”:Ibid., 170-171.

518 “Lawrence was the man”:Thompson, Assignment Churchill, 30.

519 “I know Abdullah”:Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace, 510.

519 “shrewd and indolent”:Ibid.

520 “The atmosphere in the Colonial Office”:Meinertzhagen, Middle East Diary, 99-100.

520 “consternation, despondency”:Ingrams, Palestine Papers, 105.

521 “a typewritten receipt”:Storrs, Orientations, 391.

521 “E.&O. E.”:Samuel, Memoirs, 154.

522 “Their cries became a roar”:Mack A Prince of Our Disorder, 304.

523 “the Greek epitaph of despair”:Storrs, Orientations, 527.

523 With a typically British manifestation:Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace, 508.

523 “against his own people”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 650.

524 “I take most of the credit”:Ibid., 651.

525 “quit of the war-time Eastern adventure”:Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 314, attributed to Lawrence’s notes in SP, 276.

525 “to negotiate and conclude”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 655.

527 Reading Lawrence’s report:Ibid., 660.

528 Lawrence took a steamer:Ibid.

529 “for in Trans-Jordan”:Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 308.

529 “I leave all business to Lawrence”:Ibid., 309, quoting from Philby’s Forty Years in the Wilderness, 108.

530 This refers to the fact that his father’s younger sister:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 944.

chapter eleven“Solitary in the Ranks”

539 He would laboriously correct the copies:Jeremy Wilson, “Seven Pillars of Wisdom: Triumph and Tragedy,” T. E. Lawrence studies Web site, telawrencestudies.org.

540 “to leave the payroll of the Colonial Office”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 674.

541 “God this is awful”:Lawrence, The Mint, 19.

542 “With regard to your personal point”:Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 46.

542 “considerably embarrassed”:Ibid., 48.

542 “secrecy and subterfuge”:Swann, quoted ibid.

542 “disliked the whole business”:Ibid.

542 “One would think from [his] letters”:Lawrence, Letters, Garnett (ed.), 363.

546 Johns resourcefully found a civilian doctor:Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 52.

547 “with the memory of a cold”:Ibid., 53.

547 “As they swiftly stripped for sleep”:Lawrence, The Mint, 25.

550 “a strict disciplinarian”:Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 57.

551 “I must hit him, I must”:Ibid., 58.

551 “Let the old cunt rot”:Ibid., 76-77.

551 “and see him privately”:Ibid., 65.

552 Lawrence had been writing:Ibid.

552 “consistently dirty”:Breese, quoted ibid., 66.

552 “that he had always felt”:Ibid.

552 “I think I had a mental breakdown”:Ibid., 62.

553 “There are twenty-thousand airmen”:Lawrence, The Mint, 98-99.

554 “mummified thing”:Ibid., 184-185.

555 “I’d like you to read”:Lawrence, Letters,Garnett (ed.), 362.

556 “It seems to me that an attempted work”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia,686. See 1126, n 21, as V. W. Richards to T. E. Lawrence, September 24, 1922, Bodleian Library transcript.

557 “Of the present Ministry”:Quoted ibid., 688.

560 “was appointed to the Adjutant’s office”:Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 67-68.

560 “why A/c2 Ross”:Ibid., 69.

560 “was not at all sympathetic”:Ibid.

560 “frankly perplexed”:Ibid.

560 “His blue eyes were set”:Ibid.

561 “‘Yes, Lawrence of Arabia!’”:Ibid.

562 “I am afraid you are rather making a labour of it”:Lawrence, Letters, Brown (ed.), 226.

562 “road tubthumping round”:Holroyd, Bernard Shaw, Vol. III, 85.

562 “she began ecstatically reading”:Ibid.

564 “This letter has got to be”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 690.

564 “Your offer is a generous and kind one”:Ibid., 691.

567 “a brace of thoroughgoing modern ruffians”:Ibid., 695.

567 “Nelson, slightly cracked”:Ibid.

567 “You are evidently a very dangerous man”:Holroyd, Bernard Shaw, Vol. III, 85.

568 a “virtuoso” essay:Ibid.

569 “unreasonably”:Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 74.

569 “previous service”:Ibid.

569 “ ‘I am convinced that some quality’“:Findlay, “The Amazing AC 2.”

570 “an accomplished poseur”:Holroyd, Bernard Shaw, Vol. III, 88.

570 ”‘There is no end to your Protean tricks’“:Ibid., 86.

572 “The cat being now let out of the bag”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 697.

573 “How is it conceivable, imaginable”:Ibid., 699-700.

573 “get used to the limelight”:Ibid., 700.

574 “that his position in the RAF”:Ibid., 701.

575 “the position, which had been extremely”:Ibid., 706.

575 “well-known for its large pond and bird life”:Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 76.

575 “played up at Farnborough”:Ibid., 77.

576 “how his men were to distinguish”:Lawrence, SP, 574.

577 “sounded out”:Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 80.

577 “sees no very great difficulty about it”:Ibid.

577 “A good idea!”:Ibid., 80-81.

578 “To Pte. Shaw from Public Shaw”:Holroyd, Bernard Shaw, Vol. III, 88.

578 “and was posted to A Company”:Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 81.

579 “queerly homesick”:Ibid., 86.

579 “prevailing animality of spirit”:Ibid., 85.

580 “speak and act with complete assurance”:Ibid., 82.

580 “It’s a horrible life”:Ibid., 83.

580 “this cat-calling carnality seething”:Ibid., 84.

582 “inarticulate, excessively uncomfortable”:Shaw letter, July 19, 1924; or Knightley and Simpson, Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia, 190.

582 “Lawrence did nothing without a purpose”:Knightley and Simpson, Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia, 168.

583 “His disloyalty reminded”:Jerusalem Post, 1961, quoted in Graves, Lawrence and the Arabs, 230.

586 “called him a bastard”:Knightley and Simpson, Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia, 174.

586 “turned his back on God”:Ibid.

587 “an unsigned, typed letter”:Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 88-89.

588 “to report in writing”:Ibid., 89.

588 “Circassian riding whip”:Lawrence, SP, 498.

589 “it was rather his pied-а-terre”: Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 93.

590 “Hardy is so pale”:Lawrence, Letters, Garnett (ed.), 429-431.

590 “craving for real risk”:Mack, Prince, 343.

590 “swerved at 60 M.P.H.”:Lawrence, Letters,Garnett (ed.), 419-420.

591 “Lawrence is not normal in many ways”:Lawrence, Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw, 1922-1926, Vol. I, 45.

591 “Damn you, how long do you”:Arnold Lawrence (ed.), Letters to T.E. Lawrence, 154.

591 “I can’t cheer you up”:Ibid., 64.

594 “A black core”:Lawrence, Letters, Brown (ed.), 233.

594 He persisted with it, however:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 719-720.

595 “he looked very much like Colonel Lawrence”:Arnold Lawrence (ed.), T. E. Lawrence by His Friends, 244.

595 “I have written another magnificent play”:Lawrence, Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw, 1922-1926, Vol. I, 51.

596 “upon the throne of a nation-state”:Holroyd, Bernard Shaw, Vol. III, 86.

596 “With their missionary zeal”:Ibid., 88.

596 “There isn’t as much strength in Joan”:Lawrence, Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw, 1922-1926, Vol. I, 86.

597 “I’d like to very much”:Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 97.

598 “all sorts of minor ailments”:Ibid., 102.

598 “I’d rather the few copies”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 727.

599 “The business will be done”:Ibid., 731.

599 “Confound you”:Lawrence, Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw, 1922-1926, Vol. I, 103-105.

601 “I’m always afraid of being hurt”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 739.

602 “I don’t know by what right”:Lawrence, Letters, Garnett (ed.), 214.

602 “fits of extreme depression”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 754.

chapter twelveApotheosis

605 “A Flight-Sergeant came along”:Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 109.

606 “dragged in to the Headquarters Adjutant”:Lawrence, Letters, Garnett (ed.), 481.

608 “He was hero-worshipped”:Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 117.

608 “to dive into the elastic water”:Ibid., 113.

610 “found Feisal lively”:Ibid., 116.

610 “So long as there is breath”:Lawrence, Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw, 1922-1926, Vol. I, 150.

611 “This bundle of proofs”:Ibid., 137.

611 “Something extraordinary always happens”:Ibid., 35.

612 The gift basket from Gunter’s:Ibid., 150-6.

613 “No thanks: no money”:Lawrence, Home Letters, 360.

615 “It is not the right blue”:Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 127.

616 “with his right arm dangling”:Ibid., 121.

617 “It is good of you”:Trenchard Papers, November 20, 1926, quoted ibid., 124.

618 This was an infringement of the U.K. Copyright Act:Ibid., 126.

618 “I have been surprised”:Ibid., 132.

620 “the breath away by its sheer brutality”:Ibid., 133.

620 “Hullo here’s the Orderly”:Lawrence, Letters,Garnett (ed.), 502-503.

620 “Wave upon wave”:Ibid., 502-503.

622 “I do wish, hourly”:Ibid., 506.

623 Not only Bernard Shaw believed:Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 135.

624 At Cranwell, the telegraph boy:Ibid., 128.

624 “When I opened your letter”:Ibid., 138.

625 “The fellow you need to influence”:Lawrence, Letters, Garnett (ed.), 599.

626 “Gertrude was not a good judge”:Ibid., 543.

628 “was sentfor”:Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 143.

629 “his head was everything”:Ibid., 149.

629 “suddenly and quietly”:Ibid., 150.

630 “William Blake, Thomas Malory”:Ibid., 152.

630 “which he kept in a small tin box”:Ibid.

630 “I think probably there will be”:Ibid.

630 “instead of visiting Karachi”:Ibid., 154.

631 “A conversation between”:Ibid., 163.

631 “We are only 26”:Ibid.

633 “I think that the spectacle”:Ibid., 169.

633 “Very bookish, this house-bred”:Lawrence, Odyssey of Homer, end of “Note.”

634 A genuine holy man:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 845.

634 On January 3,1929:Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 178.

634 “ineradicable suspicion”:Ibid.

636 ”great mystery”:Ibid., 209.

638 “No, my name is Mr. Smith”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 846.

639 No sooner had Trenchard:Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 183.

640 “the marriage tangles”:Ibid., 184.

640 “Why must you be”:Ibid., 185.

640 “I am being hunted”:Lawrence, Letters,Garnett (ed.), 641.

641 “Cattewaterproves to be”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 850.

641 “A man who can run away”:Lawrence, Letters,Garnett (ed.), 648.

642 “I’m very weary of being stared at”:Lawrence, Selected Letters, Garnett (ed.), 307.

643 Lawrence heard Bernard Shaw read:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 854.

644 “A pea-hen voice”:Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 190.

644 “invited herself”:Ibid.

644 “I do not know when”:Lawrence, Letters,Garnett (ed.), 665.

645 “Thus he was able to have a deep”:Clare Sydney Smith, The Golden Reign, 37.

647 Lawrence entered the picture:Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 194.

647 Unfortunately, Shaw was too busy:Ibid., 195.

648 “As regards including Lawrence”:Ibid., 268.

648 “telling me off as usual”:Ibid., 197.

650 “to stop leading from the ranks”:Ibid., 199.

651 “elevenses”:Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 205.

652 “You are a simple aircraftman”:Arnold Lawrence (ed.), Letters to T. E. Lawrence, 180.

653 “a marine expert”:Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 209.

653 “every sentence in it”:Ibid., 210.

654 “read it at Umtaiye”:Knightley and Simpson, Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia, 260.

655 “As I see it”:Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 212.

655 “and he was a wash-out”:Lawrence, Selected Letters, Garnett (ed.), 324.

656 “Dear 338171”:Ibid., 473.

658 Lawrence “is wearing a uniform”:Emma Smith, The Great Western Beach, 244.

659 “the best motorcycle out”:West, David Reese among Others, 193.

659 “Ah, yes—that”:Ibid., 202.

660 “The discharge of this airman”:Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 218.

660 looking after the interests of the Air Ministry:Ibid., 220.

660 “Lawrence of Arabia has decided to stay”:Ibid.

661 “agreed with Lawrence’s view”:Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 519-520.

661 “surely I am not in clear-shining Ithaca”:Lawrence, Odyssey of Homer, 190-191.

662 Jeremy Wilson notes that he took:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 892.

666 “It’ll end in tragedy”:Graves and Liddell Hart, T. E. Lawrence to His Biographers, 140.

666 “the rhetoric of freedom”:Ibid., 186-187.

667 The British Fascists:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 916-917.

667 “In March 1935 the RAF”:Lawrence, Letters, Brown (ed.), 528.

668 “I lunched with Alexander Korda”:Ibid., 549.

669 “Korda is like an oil-company”:Ibid., 534.

669 Lawrence enjoyed Bridlington:Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 228.

670 “ ‘Oh, I am so sorry’”:Ibid., 230-231.

670 “When I want the advice”:Ibid., 232.

671 “armament school”:Ibid., 238.

671 “The conquest of the last element”:Lawrence, Letters, Garnett (ed.), 368.

672 “Aircraftman Shaw”:Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 241.

672 “How I wish he hadn’t”:Ibid., 234.

673 Horrified—he needed:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 927.

674 “All here is very quiet”:Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 245.

674 “I believe when the Government”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 934.

674 “Wild mares would not take me”:Ibid.

675 “At present I am sitting”:Lawrence, Letters, Brown (ed.), 541.

676 Having completed his errands:Knightley and Simpson, Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia, 270.

678 Lawrence lay unconscious:Ibid., 272-273.

680 “Istood beside him lying”:Storrs, Orientations, 530-531.

epilogueLife after Death

684 “an Austrian-born religious artist”:Brown, Lawrence of Arabia, 196-197.

Bibliography

MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS

B. H. Liddell Hart Papers, The Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King’s College, London.

Papers of T. E. Lawrence and A. W. Lawrence, University of Oxford, Bodleian Library, Oxford, England.

National Archives, Kew, Surrey, England.

Lowell Thomas Collection, James A. Cannavino Library, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

Thomas Edward Lawrence Papers, Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif.

BOOKS AND ARTICLES

Abdullah, King of Jordan. Memoirs of King Abdullah of Transjordan. London: Cape, 1950.