Author: Thomas Edward LawrencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages :
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Evolution of a revolt: early postwar writings of T.E.Lawrence, ed
Author: Thomas Edward LawrencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages :
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Evolution of a Revolt
Author: Thomas Edward LawrencePublisher: University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, 1968 [c1967]
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
At the end of World War I, T.E. Lawrence was known throughout the world as Lawrence of Arabia, the prime mover of a surprisingly unified Arab desert campaign against the Turks, the "Emir Dynamite" of one of modern warfare's most effective guerrilla operations. Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Lawrence's literary monument of these events, is one of the few twentieth century works of epic style and tone. Although he produced several preliminary versions, these were preceded from 1918 through 1921 by a series of now-it-can-be-told writings in newspapers and journals, half of them published anonymously. Brought together here for the first time, they in effect form a "first published version" of Seven Pillars of Wisdom in which Lawrence wrote far less self-consciously and did not strive so blatantly for literary effect. Instead, his style came naturally and he salted his narrative liberally with wry, aphoristic language and effective metaphor.
Evolution of a Revolt
Author: Thomas Edward LawrencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Evolution of a Revolt
Author: Thomas Edward LawrencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Evolution of a Revolt
Author: Thomas Edward LawrencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 175
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Richard Aldington and Lawrence of Arabia
Author: Fred D. CrawfordPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809321667
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
If you plan to portray a national icon in less than heroic terms, you had better be prepared for a fight, as Richard Aldington learned even before the publication of his 1955 biography, Lawrence of Arabia: A Biographical Enquiry. Fred D. Crawford provides the first examination of all major parties and points of view embroiled in the controversy generated by Aldington's biography of T. E. Lawrence. In two years of research, Aldington made major discoveries, including the extent to which Lawrence had cooperated with Lowell Thomas, Robert Graves, and B. H. Liddell Hart in the creation of the "Lawrence legend". For this and other reasons, Aldington concluded that Lawrence was a charlatan, a poseur, and a fraud. Upon learning of Aldington's antagonism to Lawrence a year before Aldington's book appeared, a powerful group including B. H. Liddell Hart, Robert Graves, A. W. Lawrence, and other Lawrence partisans worked behind the scenes to suppress and denigrate Aldington's biography. These attempts, Crawford notes, reveal a great deal about how private interests can determine what the public is allowed to read.
The Waking Dream of T.E. Lawrence
Author: C. StangPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 113706109X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Since the end of the First World War, the legend of 'Lawrence of Arabia' has enjoyed much currency in the popular imagination of the West. Behind this legend, however, is a man, Thomas Edward Lawrence, tortured and brilliant, a man whose life and literature reflect the modern consciousness and the war that indelibly marked it. Here in this volume are essays which seek to address what has been overlooked by the legend and to better understand the legacy of his presence in the twentieth century. Contributors explore Lawrence's relation to other major writers of his time, the colonial and postcolonial implications of his link with Arabia, his sexuality, and his status as cultural icon.
The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature
Author: David Scott KastanPublisher:
ISBN: 0195169212
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 2648
Book Description
A comprehensive reference presents over five hundred full essays on authors and a variety of topics, including censorship, genre, patronage, and dictionaries.
Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East
Author: Shareen Blair BrysacPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393342433
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
A brilliant narrative history tracing today’s troubles back to the grandiose imperial overreach of Great Britain and the United States. Kingmakers is the gripping story of how the modern Middle East came to be, as told through the lives of the Britons and Americans who shaped it. Some are famous (Lawrence of Arabia and Gertrude Bell); others infamous (Harry St. John Philby, father of Kim); some forgotten (Sir Mark Sykes, Israel’s godfather, and A. T. Wilson, the territorial creator of Iraq). All helped enthrone rulers in a region whose very name is an Anglo-American invention. The aim of this engrossing character-driven narrative is to restore to life the colorful figures who gave us the Middle East in which Americans are enmeshed today.
Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age
Author: Peter ParetPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691027641
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 951
Book Description
This text discusses Machiavelli, Maurice of Nassau, Gustavus Adolphus, Raimondo Montecuccoli, Vauban, Frederick the Great, Guibert, Bulow, Napoleon, Jomini, Clausewitz, Adam Smith, Alexander Hamilton, Friedrich List, Engels, Marx, Moltke, Schlieffen, Delbruck, Bugeaud, Gallieni, Lyautey, Alfred Thayer Mahan, Liddell Hart, De Gaulle, and other military strategists.