"The present book exposes a malicious forgery perpetrated by one Colonel Richard Meinerzhagen, British soldier, big game hunter, intell igence chief, ornithologist, Zionist, and colleague of Lawrence's, who was also a master forger. Although perpetrated by this detractor, the pseudo diary entries were unfortunately quoted by an astonishing number of Lawrence scholars over the years. The entries are largely of a critical nature and contain some of the most serious allegations of misconduct ever levelled against Lawrence. This book proves them, by was of both textual analysis and physical evidence, to have been fabricated by the elderly Meinertzhagen in the late 1950s." from the laid-in extract.