'Seven Pillars of Wisdom' provides a unique portrait of this extraordinary man and an insight into the birth of the Arab nation. Seven Pillars of Wisdom is an unusual and rich work. Lawrence is a fascinating and controversial figure and his talent as a vivid and imaginative writer shines through on every page of this, his masterpiece.

It is also a memoir of the soldier known as 'Lawrence of Arabia'. It encompasses an account of the Arab Revolt against the Turks during the First World War alongside general Middle Eastern and military history, politics, adventure and drama. 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom' is an unusual and rich work. Turkey is an ally of Germany in the war and England feels that helping the Arabs defeat the Turks helps England in her war against Germany. Lawrence, in full Thomas Edward Lawrence, byname Lawrence of Arabia, also called (from 1927) T.E. The Arab region is a part of the Ottoman Empire at the opening of the book. in London in the winter of 1919-20 from memory and. So it was built again with heavy repugnance. He is commissioned into the British Army while at the Euphrates and is attached to the Hejaz Expeditionary Force with Lawrence functioning as the British soldier attached to the Arab leadership in the revolt against the Turks. in Feisals army had thought of writing down at the time what we felt, what we hoped, what we tried.

Lawrence, educated at Oxford, begins by working for a museum on an archaeological dig in the Middle East at the outbreak of the First World War. Lawrence is the story of the Arab Revolt against the Turkish Empire and Lawrence's role in it. First published in 1926, 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom' by T.

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