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  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 twelve Apotheosis

  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 Ara
bia, 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.

  epilogue Life 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.

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  Adelson, Roger. Mark Sykes: Portrait of an Amateur. London: Cape, 1975.

  Aldington, Richard. Lawrence of Arabia: A Biographical Enquiry. London: Collins, 1955.

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  Barr, James. Setting the Desert on Fire: T. E. Lawrence and Britain’s Secret War in Arabia, 1916-1918. London: Bloomsbury, 2007.

  Barrow, General Sir George deS. The Fire of Life. London: Hutchinson, 1942.

  Brown, Malcolm. Lawrence of Arabia: The Life, the Legend. London: Thames and Hudson, 2005.

  Brown, Malcolm, and Julia Cave. Touch of Genius: The Life of T. E. Lawrence. London: Dent, 1988.

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  Churchill, Winston. Great Contemporaries. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1973.

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  Graves, Robert, and B. H. Liddell Hart. T. E. Lawrence to His Biographers. Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, 1963.

  Greaves, Adrian. Lawrence of Arabia: Mirage of a Desert War. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2007.

  Holroyd, Michael. Bernard Shaw: The Lure of Fantasy, Vol. III. New York: Random House, 1991.

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  Hyde, H. Montgomery. Solitary in the Ranks: Lawrence of Arabia as Airman and Private Soldier. London: Constable, 1977.

  Ingrams, Doreen. Palestine Papers, 1917-1922: Seeds of Conflict. London: J. Murray, 1972.

  Knightley, Phillip, and Colin Simpson. Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969.

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  —. Selected Letters of T. E. Lawrence, David Garnett (ed.). London: Cape, 1952.

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  Liddell Hart, Basil. Colonel Lawrence: The Man behind the Legend. New York: Halcyon, 1937.

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  Mack, John. A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence. Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, 1976.

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  Nicolson, Harold. Peace Making: Being Reminiscences of the Paris Peace Conference. Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1933.

  O’Brien, Philip M. T. E. Lawrence: A Bibliography. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll, 2000.

  Pakenham, Frank, Earl of Longford. Peace by Ordeal: The Negotiation of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, 1921. London: Pimlico, 1992.

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  Shaw, George Bernard. Man of Destiny. New York: Brentano, 1913.

  Sherwood, John. No Golden Journey: A Biography of James Elroy Flecker. London: Heinemann, 1973.

  Shotwell, James Thomson. At the Paris Peace Conference. New York: Macmillan, 1937.

  Smith, Clare Sydney. The Golden Reign. London: Cassell, 1940.

  Smith, Emma. The Great Western Beach: A Memoir of a Cornish Childhood between the Wars. London: Bloomsbury, 2008.

  Storrs, Ronald. Orientations. London: Ivor Nicholson and Watson, 1937.

  Thomas, Lowell. With Lawrence in Arabia. New York: Doubleday, 1967.

  Thompson, W. H. Assignment Churchill. Farrar, Straus and Young, 1955.

  Toynbee, Arnold. Acquaintances. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967.

  von Sanders, Liman. Five Years in Turkey. Nashville, Tenn.: Battery, 2000.

  Wallach, Janet. Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell—Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia. New York: Anchor, 2005.

  Wavell, Archibald Percival. Palestine Campaigns. London: Constable, 1928.

  Weizmann, Chaim. Letters and Papers of Chaim Weizmann, Mark W. Weisgal (gen. ed.), Vol. IX, Series A. Transaction Books, Rutgers University. Jerusalem: Israel Universities Press, 1977.

  West, Anthony. David Reese among Others. New York: Random House, 1970.

  Wilson, Jeremy. Lawrence of Arabia: The Authorized Biography of T. E. Lawrence. New York: Atheneum, 1990.

  Young, Sir Hubert. The Independent Arab. London: Murray, 1933.

  Index

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  Note: Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.

  Aaronsohn, Aaron, 328–29

  Aaronsohn, Sarah, 498

  Aba el Naam, railway station at, 77–78

  Aba’l Issan (Abu el Lissal), 95–96, 98, 101, 402, 4
04

  Abd el Aziz, 419

  Abd el Kader el Abdo (hero), 43, 307, 327–28

  Abd el Kader el Abdo, emir (grandson), 329–35

  Auda’s warning about, 332

  at Damascus, 430, 431–32, 433

  and Deraa incident, 342, 343, 400

  desertion at Yarmuk, 335, 400, 430

  at Ezraa, 417

  journey to Azrak, 327, 329–30, 331, 334

  Lawrence betrayed to Turks by, 335, 342, 343, 400, 430

  volatility of, 328, 329, 333, 431–32

  Abdul Hamid II, sultan, 259

  Abdul Kerim, 172

  Abdulla (Mesopotamian soldier), 370, 371

  Abdulla, emir (son of Hussein), 140

  assassination of, 14, 16, 518

  as first king of Jordan, 14, 16, 80, 277n, 405, 444, 511, 515, 518, 519, 520, 523, 524, 528–29

  in Jidda, 14–16

  leadership qualities of, 15–16, 80, 483, 532

  memoirs of, 16

  and military strategy, 27, 29, 35, 62–63, 70, 71, 76, 80, 266, 298

  and outbreak of Arab Revolt, 291–92

  and plans for Arab Revolt, 10, 40, 259–61

  Saudi defeat of, 483–84

  at Wadi Ais, 60, 71, 73, 74, 76

  Abdulla el Feir, sharif, 313, 374

  Abdulla el Nahabi, 367

  Abdullah (son of Obeid), 25

  Abdulla II, king of Jordan, 529

  Abu el Lissal, 95–96, 98, 101, 402, 404

  Abu Tayi tribe, 360

  Abyssinia, military strategy between wars, 29

  Aden, British port of, 527

  Aéro-Club de France, 642

  Afghanistan:

  Amanullah as king of, 632, 634, 639

  British wars fought in, 632

  Lawrence’s warning about, 254, 626

  modern-day wars in, 30

  newspaper rumors about, 634–35

  and RAF Fort Miranshah, Waziristan, 631–34

  Russian ambitions toward, 12

  tribal unrest in, 632, 635, 639

  African Queen, The (film), 92

  Ageyl tribesmen, 71–72, 95

  Ahmed Jemal Pasha, 344

  as al-SaÃah (the butcher), 34, 430

  amnesty sought by, 360–61, 398–99

  Feisal’s dealings with, 266, 360–61, 400

  and military strategy, 70, 266

  as Turkish ruler, 34–35, 285n

  Aid, Harithi sharif, 312–13, 314

  Air Ministry, Marine Equipment Branch, 653, 659–60

  Aldington, Richard, Lawrence of Arabia, 118, 687–90, 694, 696

 

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