Lawrence in Arabia : war, deceit, imperial folly and the making of the modern Middle East
Book |
Signal,
Toronto :
c2013.
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About
"The Arab Revolt against the Turks in World War I was, in the words of T.E. Lawrence, "a sideshow to a sideshow." As a result, the conflict was shaped to a remarkable degree by four men far removed from the corridors of power. Curt Pruefer was an effete academic attached to the German embassy in Cairo, whose clandestine role was to foment jihad against British rule. Aaron Aaronsohn was a renowned agronomist and committed Zionist who gained the trust of the Ottoman governor of Palestine. William Yale was the fallen scion of the American aristocracy, who traveled the Ottoman Empire on behalf of Standard Oil, dissembling to the Turks in order gain valuable oil concessions. At the center of it all was Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence. In early 1914 he was an archaeologist digging ruins in Syria; by 1919 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."--Jacket.
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Details
- ISBN: 9780771007668 (hc.)
- Physical Description: xii, 577 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm.print
- Publisher: Toronto : Signal, c2013.
- General Note: Maps on endpapers.
- Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.