The Seven Pillars of Wisdom is about the war in the desert in the way that Moby Dick is about catching a whale E.M. Seven Pillars, elegantly written and deservedly regarded as a classic, also remains fascinating in its own right, as military history, for its close observation of the desert life of the nomadic Arab tribesmen, and perhaps most of all for its insights into the character of the still-enigmatic Lawrence Washington Post It was based on extensive notes that he kept during his. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), a British Army Colonel who served as a military advisor to Bedouin forces in Wadi Rum in Jordan during the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Turks of 1916 to 1918. His book is still a wonderful, exciting and sometimes moving account of a great adventure Scotsman Seven Pillars of Wisdom is the autobiographical account of the experiences of T. It is the best textbook for conventional forces facing the problem of having to cope with an enemy who has no known rules, who emerges out of nowhere and strikes at random Sunday Express More recently he has won an amazing new reputation as the most perceptive writer on the subject of guerrilla warfare, so that his memoir about the Arab Revolt - Seven Pillars Of Wisdom, the basis for the movie - is now a 'must read' in Iraq. Seven Pillars of Wisdom is one of the major statements about the fighting experience of the First World War Angus Calder

Lawrence over the edge of the world John Buchan I am not much of a hero-worshipper but I could have followed T.E. has hung an unexampled fabric of portraits, descriptions, philosophies, emotions, adventures, dreams E.M. Round this tent-pole of a military chronicle, T. It ranks with the greatest books ever written in the English language.As a narrative of war and is unsurpassable Winston Churchill

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