Hero: The Life & Legend of Lawrence of Arabia - Couverture rigide

Korda, Michael

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1907532293 ISBN 13 : 9781907532290

Editeur : Aurum, 2011

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Michael Korda s Hero is the story of an epic life on a grand scale, a revealing, in-depth, and gripping biography of the extraordinary, mysterious, and dynamic Englishman whose daring exploits and romantic profile including his sun-burnished blonde looks and flowing white robes made him an object of intense fascination, known the world over as Lawrence of Arabia . However, unlike other biographers, Korda does not seek to burnish or destroy the legend; rather he aims to demystify and reveal the real man T.E. Lawrence as he truly was. An Oxford Scholar and archaeologist, one of the five illegitimate sons of a British aristocrat who ran away with his daughters governess, Lawrence was sent to Cairo as an intelligence officer in 1916, vanished into the desert in 1917, and re-emerged as the greatest and most colourful figure of WW1. A foreigner, he united and led the Arab tribes to defeat the Turks and eventually capture Damascus. Yet as he illuminates Lawrence s achievements, Korda digs further to expose the flesh-and-blood man and his contradictory nature: a born leader utterly fearless and seemingly impervious to pain, thirst, fatigue and danger who remained shy, modest, and retiring; a scholar and an aesthete who was also a bold and cold-blooded warrior. As Korda shows, Lawrence was not only a man of his times, but a visionary whose achievements as a farsighted diplomat, brilliant military strategist, the first media celebrity, and acclaimed writer transcended them. Korda analyses Lawrence s vision for the modern Middle East, plans that, if they had been carried through, might have prevented the hatred and bloodshed that have become ubiquitous in the region. Ultimately, as this magisterial work demonstrates, Lawrence remains the paradigm of the hero in modern times, the arch-heroic type whose life was at once a triumph and a sacrifice, and whose capacity to astonish remains undimmed.

Revue de presse :

This book is monumental in every sense. The book has many virtues. Among the chief of these are its clarity and readability, its determination to leave no investigative stone unturned and the extraordinarily thorough research that has gone into its writing --BBC History Magazine

-Thorough and compelling -Korda's successful mission is...to examine Lawrence's many faces, as scholar, diplomat, and visionary, and in doing so, to restore the humanity that confers upon him truly heroic status. --Choice Magazine, Good Book Guide

'a wealth of scholarly research and this book is absorbing, hugely informative and highly readable' --Avanti Magazine

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Aurum
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1907532293
• ISBN 13: 9781907532290
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 784