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Lawrence in arabia

ID 286311
Slug lawrence-in-arabia
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Description <p><b>One of the Best Books of the Year:<br><i>The Christian Science Monitor<br>NPR<br>The Seattle Times&#160;<br>St. Louis Post-Dispatch&#160;<br>Chicago Tribune</i><br><br>A <i>New York Times</i> Notable Book<br><br><b>Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography</b><br></b><br>The Arab Revolt against the Turks in World War I was, in the words of T. E. Lawrence, &ldquo;a sideshow of a sideshow.&rdquo; As a result, the conflict was shaped to a remarkable degree by a small handful of adventurers and low-level officers far removed from the corridors of power.<br><br>At the center of it all was Lawrence himself.&#160;In early 1914 he was an archaeologist excavating ruins in Syria; by 1917 he was riding into legend at the head of an Arab army as he fought a rearguard action against his own government and its imperial ambitions. Based on four years of intensive primary document research, <i>Lawrence in Arabia</i> definitively overturns received wisdom on how the modern Middle East was formed.</p>
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Publisher Doubleday US
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Language eng
Page count 624
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Publication date first 2014-05-21
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  • ISBN: 9780307476418 (BC)

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