Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East

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McMahon, Henry; bin Ali, Hussein (1939). "Cmd.5957; Correspondence between Sir Henry McMahon, G.C.M.G., His Majesty's High Commissioner at. Cairo and the Sherif Hussein of Mecca, July, 1915–March, 1916 (with map)" (PDF). HMSO. Archived (PDF) from the original on 10 October 2022. The authoritative and illuminating biography of T. E. Lawrence - the man who inspired the iconic film Lawrence of Arabia - from "The World's Greatest Living Explorer" Ranulph Fiennes.

Anyways, what distinguishes T. E. Lawrence from the other members would be his dream of the independent Arab nation, not French or British Mandatory with the new, bizarre boundaries we see today. Swedish power metal band Sabaton wrote the song "Seven Pillars Of Wisdom" about Lawrence for their 2019 album The Great War. [277]Korda, M. (2010). Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia. Harper. ISBN 978-0-06-171261-6– via Internet Archive (archive.org).

Stewart, Desmond (1977). T. E. Lawrence. New York: Harper & Row Publishers. ISBN 9780060141233– via Internet Archive (archive.org). Just a few months after leaving the RAF, where he sought to escape the publicity of his Arabian actions, Lawrence was killed in a motorcycle accident near his Dorset home at the age of 46. Of the biographies of Lawrence of Arabia, MacLean's, written in 1962 at the time of the film, must, I suppose, be seen as an attempt to capitalize on that frenzy. MacLean is better known today for his adventure novels, such as The Guns of Navarone and Where Eagles Dare. Oskar von Niedermayer (1885–1948), German officer, professor and spy, sometimes referred to as the German LawrenceHe professed happiness, and he left the service with considerable regret at the end of his enlistment in March 1935. [160] There is some evidence that at that time the British government was interested in bringing him into some role in the national defense organization, in the context of the rising threat of Nazi Germany. [161] Wilson, Jeremy (1989). Lawrence of Arabia: The Authorised Biography of T. E. Lawrence. London: William Heinemann. ISBN 978-0-434-87235-0.

Ocampo, V. (1963). 338171 T. E. (Lawrence of Arabia). London. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link) Brown, Malcolm, ed. (2005). Lawrence of Arabia: The selected letters. London. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link)Lawrence, T. E. (1935). Seven Pillars of Wisdom (unabridgeded.). Garden City, New York, USA: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-385-07015-7. Wilson, Jeremy. " Seven Pillars of Wisdom—Triumph and Tragedy". T. E. Lawrence Studies. Archived from the original on 17 May 2008 . Retrieved 17 July 2008.

Barr, James (2008). Setting the Desert on Fire: T. E. Lawrence and Britain's Secret War in Arabia 1916–1918. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-07095-8. Wilson, Jeremy. "T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom: Publishing History". T. E. Lawrence Studies. Archived from the original on 2 May 2006 . Retrieved 17 July 2008. The title comes from the Book of Proverbs; [3] "Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars" ( Proverbs 9:1) ( King James Version). Before the First World War, Lawrence had begun work on a scholarly book about seven great cities of the Middle East, [a] to be called Seven Pillars of Wisdom. It was incomplete when war broke out and Lawrence stated that he destroyed the manuscript. He used his original title for the later work.Peter O'Toole's portrayal of Lawrence inspired behavioural affectations in the android David, portrayed by Michael Fassbender in the 2012 film Prometheus, and its 2017 sequel Alien: Covenant, part of the Alien franchise. [269]