![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this book Lawrence writes down the very basics of guerrilla warfare which all insurgency is based upon. I re-read the book because one of my colleagues asked how Islamic State had been so successful in Syria and North Iraq.īefore I recommended this book to him I gave it a read just in case my old memory was playing tricks.īut my memory was true. ![]() This version of events is more accessible than Seven Pillars and most of the more outre episodes ( which people who knew him say were total fantasy) are not included. I find its views poignant and relevent to our world as it is much more than a great history. This was the second draft of this experiance, the first, with a word count at least twice this ones size (by an easy couple of hundred thousand words) was lost, the sole copy of which he left sitting on a English train station bench, never to be seen again.Ĭopies of this version are scarce but not immpossible to find, and well worth the search. Irreverent and honest, he speaks casually of his great impact on the area and the nature of the rich cultures he encounters, the terrible privations he and his compatriots underwent, the black cruelty as well as the acts of spontanious nobility encountered with a voice that lays each to stand for themselves, bare and uncolored by the need to justify or package. 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. ![]()
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