Seven Pillars of Wisdom: The True Story of Lawrence of Arabia - Couverture souple

Lawrence, T. E.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1515457729 ISBN 13 : 9781515457725

Editeur : Unabridged Publications, 2022

Synopsis

T. E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom is one of the great personal narratives of war, revolt, desert travel, military strategy, and imperial politics. Written from Lawrence’s own experience during the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire in the First World War, the book follows the campaigns, alliances, hardships, ambitions, and contradictions that made “Lawrence of Arabia” one of the most enduring figures of twentieth-century history. It is at once a military memoir, a travel narrative, a political document, and a work of remarkable literary force.

Lawrence writes with rare intensity about Arabia, guerrilla warfare, tribal politics, British strategy, personal loyalty, and the psychological burden of command. His account moves from desert raids and military planning to the shifting relationships between Arab leaders, British officers, and imperial interests. The result is not a simple adventure story, though it contains extraordinary adventure. It is a complex firsthand record of war and revolution, shaped by brilliance, guilt, courage, ambition, exhaustion, and the uneasy moral aftermath of victory.

T. E. Lawrence, born Thomas Edward Lawrence in 1888, was a British archaeologist, army officer, writer, and diplomat whose role in the Arab Revolt made him internationally famous as Lawrence of Arabia. Educated at Oxford and trained in Middle Eastern archaeology before the war, Lawrence brought linguistic skill, regional knowledge, and political imagination to British operations in the Arabian theatre. After the war, his reputation grew through public fascination with his exploits and through his own writings, especially Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Lawrence later served under assumed names in the Royal Air Force and the Royal Tank Corps, continued to write and translate, and died in 1935 after a motorcycle accident. His legacy remains central to readers interested in World War I, Middle Eastern history, military memoir, desert exploration, British imperial history, and the complicated making of modern Arabia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Unabridged Publications
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1515457729
• ISBN 13: 9781515457725
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 230
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