The basis for the great movie, Lawrence of Arabia, it stands very well upon its own legs.
Lawrences classic history/biography of his involvment in the middle east during the War To End All wars. "The story of such an adventure as no other man in our own times has had: there is wit, truth, beauty and complete simplicity in the telling of the tale."
"Not a dull or empty sentence from end to end." He shows himself to be one of the great writers, and the question comes into one's mind if he be not the only one of the great writers of the world who was also a great man of action." Lawrence has fully as much literary as military genius. Oxonian, archaeologist, intelligence officer, writer, and soldier, he became famous for his military exploits in Arabia during World War I, detailed in his books Seven Pillars of Wisdom and Revolt in the Desert. Thomas Edward Lawrence was born in Wales in 1888 and died in England in May 1935, from injuries suffered in a motorcycle crash. From the review of the original edition of Revolt in the Desert in The New York Times Book Review, March 20, 1927. It is as though this spare little man, pronounced physically unfit for military duty, were destined to outshine in the memories of men great captains and generals, giants and paladins." More seldom still does his legend survive the writing. But seldom does the hero of a legend write his own account of his acts and deeds. This book of Lawrence's, it is possible, may enjoy such a perennial longevity. Then we have the legend of an Odysseus, a Roland, a Drake or a Lawrence, and human annals become enriched with the gestes of another of their heroes: and if it have vitality enough the legend persists forever. Every now and again appears a book, a poem or a character that flashes across our horizon like a blinding light to prove that men made in our image still possess superhuman, almost divine, energy and, by fortunate meetings of gifts and circumstances, can work miracles. Very good condition."The race of heroes is not dead. Nicely rebound in half tan calf brown title labels with Arabic gilt designs on the spine. Fold-out sketch map at the back of the book showing the general direction of some of his journeys. Revolt in the Desert was an abridged version of Seven Pillars, published in March 1927, and was a bestseller. Lawrence's major work is Seven Pillars of Wisdom, an account of his war experiences. The breadth and variety of his activities and associations, and his ability to describe them vividly in writing, earned him international fame as Lawrence of Arabia. Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence CB DSO (16 August 1888 – ) was a British archaeologist, army officer, diplomat, and writer, who became renowned for his role in the Arab Revolt (1916–1918) and the Sinai and Palestine Campaign (1915–1918) against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War.
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