T. E. Lawrence became world-famous as "Lawrence of Arabia" after helping Sherif Hussein of Mecca gain independence from Turkey during the Arab Revolt of 1916-18. His achievements, however, would have been impossible without the unsung efforts of a forgotten band of fellow officers and spies. This groundbreaking account by Philip Walker interweaves the compelling stories of Colonel Cyril Wilson and a colorful supporting cast with the narrative of Lawrence and the desert campaign. These men's lost tales provide a remarkable and fresh perspective on Lawrence and the Arab Revolt. While Lawrence and others blew up trains in the desert, Wilson and his men carried out their shadowy intelligence and diplomatic work. His deputies rooted out anti-British soldiers who were trying to sabotage the revolt. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Lionel Gray, a cipher officer, provided a gateway into unknown aspects of the revolt through his previously unpublished photographs and eyewitness writings. Wilson's crucial influence underpinned all these missions and steadied the revolt on a number of occasions when it could have collapsed. Without Wilson and his circle there would have been no "Lawrence of Arabia." Wilson's band mostly fell through the cracks of history into obscurity. Behind the Lawrence Legend reveals their vital impact and puts Lawrence's efforts into context, helping to set the record straight for one of the most beguiling and iconic characters of the twentieth century.

Juin 1916. Les tribus bédouines du Hedjaz se soulèvent contre l'occupant turc. Cet ouvrage relate l'épopée d'officiers et soldats français qui luttèrent aux côtés des Arabes insurgés et du célèbre colonel britannique T.E. Lawrence. Au-delà des faits d'armes, l'auteur fait ici le récit de la confrontation politique entre la France et la Grande-Bretagne pour le contrôle du Proche-Orient. Il accorde une attention particulière au duel sans merci que se livrèrent le lieutenant-colonel Brémond, chef de la mission française, et T.E. Lawrence, pour rivaliser d'influence auprès des leaders de la révolte arabe.

"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.

Two-volume paperback edition Edited with a Foreword by Jeremy Wilson Published by J. and N. Wilson for T. E. Lawrence Studies T.E. Lawrence's original 1922 text was nearly a third longer than that which was issued in 1935 as the "Complete and Unabridged" text. Lawrence's official biographer, Jeremy Wilson, spearheaded this ambitious project at the Castle Hill Press in order to finally bring that text to the public. The text provided here is taken from Lawrence's manuscript copy in the Bodleian Library and T. E. Lawrence's annotated copy of the 1922 Oxford Times printing. Lawrence's personal narrative of the revolt of Arab armies against the Turks during the First World War, SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM stands as a monument of modern literature and history. Bernard Shaw and Winston Churchill both described the book as one of the greatest in the English language. But the story of its publication is a famous saga onto itself. Lawrence had nearly completed a first draft manuscript in 1919, but this was stolen or lost along with his briefcase during the month of November of the same year at the Reading train station and never recovered. Lawrence, from memory, created an entirely new draft by May 11, 1920 and then spent two years carefully editing it. The product of this was the famous 1922 'Oxford Text' which he shared with only a few friends and critics. Though one of them, George Bernard Shaw, called it a 'masterpiece' Lawrence still felt it unready and edited out nearly a third of it. This resulted in the famous 'Subscriber's Edition', of which Lawrence printed fewer than 200 copies at great personal financial cost. And only 22 copies of the American issue were printed to secure copyright and never offered for sale. This was followed by "Revolt in the Desert", the first edition generally published of the work, in a further abridged format. It was only after Lawrence's death in 1935 that the full text of the Subscriber's Edition was made available by the publisher Jonathan Cape to the public as SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM. Six decades would pass before the original text, the 'Oxford Text' in all of its over 300,000 word glory, through Wilson's efforts and those of the Castle Hill Press, would finally be available to general readers and students of the work of T.E. Lawrence.

“On the train from Cairo little Lawrence my super-cerebral companion." On 12 October 1916, Ronald Storrs, the British Oriental Secretary in Cairo, wrote these words in his diary as he set out for the Hejaz in the company of a young Military Intelligence officer stationed in Cairo, T. E. Lawrence. This would be Lawrence’s first visit to the Hejaz, and the beginning of a remarkable journey that would create the legend of Lawrence of Arabia. One hundred years later, Lawrence of Arabia’s War: Day By Day was originally conceived by the T. E. Lawrence Society as a unique and exciting way to commemorate the centenary of the Arab Revolt of 1916-1918 by posting Lawrence’s activities online each day in the form of a blog. Through these daily posts drawing on Lawrence’s wartime diaries, field notes, reports and correspondence, as well as the contemporary writings of fellow officers – accompanied by excerpts from Lawrence’s book Seven Pillars of Wisdom – it was hoped readers would gain a deeper appreciation of the part played by Lawrence in the desert campaign by reliving the events in “real time” over two years. Lawrence of Arabia’s War: Day By Day is now being published in print form to serve as a useful reference resource. It also offers a highly readable introduction to the events in the desert. Proceeds from sales of this book will be donated to the T. E. Lawrence Society, an educational charity which exists to promote research and to educate the public in the life and works of T. E. Lawrence

T. E. Lawrence’s dispatches during the Arab Revolt have been published before, but only in an edited and incomplete form, as they were printed for a strictly limited wartime readership in the Arab Bulletin. Now, in this scholarly edition, they are published in full for the first time. They give us a direct inside view of his dealings with the Arab leaders and show us how he presented them to his superiors in Cairo. These wartime writings reveal vividly his impressions of the periods he spent in the desert and the conditions he found there, and they record how the Arab uprising developed and how he became increasingly involved in it. They make fascinating reading for, in his sometimes outspoken way, he reported on the military potential of the Arab fighters and recommended how they should be supported in their struggle against the Ottoman empire. This new collection of his dispatches is a valuable addition to the literature on Lawrence for it allows readers to trace the course of the revolt as he wrote about it at the time. They are printed in chronological order with full explanatory notes. The editor Fabrizio Bagatti provides a perceptive introduction which sets them in their wartime context, fills in the military and political background to the strategic situation in the Middle East and describes Lawrence’s important role as an intermediary between the Arabs and the British.

Lawrence's second book, The Mint, consists of two autobiographical fragments. The first recounts his experiences as an RAF recruit at Uxbridge in 1922. The second describes his life as an aircraftman at Cranwell in 1925–6. The Uxbridge chapters were to have opened a much longer book about the RAF, but he abandoned the project. Some years later he began to think of extending The Mint. The enlarged version would cover the remainder of his service in the ranks from 1927 to 1935. For source-material, he would draw on letters to friends. He did not live to do this, and The Mint – which contains some of his best writing – was finally published as it stood in 1955. While working on their edition of Lawrence’s letters, Jeremy and Nicole Wilson made a selection from the many passages about his lif in the RAF, arranging them in the form of a diary. These 'Later Writings About Service Life' were first published in 2009. Read as a sequel to The Mint, they provide in Lawrence's own words a far more satisfactory account of his RAF years. They also help explain his affection for service life. The edition is rounded off by passages from letters about The Mint. These set out the history of the text and Lawrence's attitude towards it.

Lawrence of Arabia's heroism during the Arab revolt and his disgust at the subsequent betrayal of the Arabs in the postwar negotiations have become the stuff of legend. But T. E. Lawrence’s adventures in the Levant began long before the outbreak of war. This intimate biography is the first to focus on Lawrence in his twenties, the untold story of the awkward archaeologist from Oxford who, on first visiting "The East," fell in love with Arab culture and found his life's mission. Few people realize that Lawrence’s classic autobiography, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, was not the first book to carry that iconic title. Lawrence himself burned his original draft. Anthony Sattin here uncovers the story Lawrence wanted to conceal: the truth of his birth, his tortuous relationship with a dominant mother, his deep affection for an Arab boy, and the personal reasons that drove him from student to spy. Drawing on surviving letters, diaries, and accounts from close confidantes, Sattin brings a biographer’s eye for detail and a travel writer's verve to Lawrence's extraordinary journeys through the region with which his name is forever connected. In a masterful parallel narrative, The Young T. E. Lawrence charts the maturation of the man and the incipient countries he treasured, both coming of age at a time when the world’s foundations were coming undone.

I suppose I ought to warn you at the outset that my present circumstances are puzzling, even to me. Nevertheless, I am sure of this much: My little story has become your history. You won't really understand your times until you understand mine. So begins the account of Agnes Shanklin, the charmingly diffident narrator of Mary Doria Russell's compelling new novel Dreamers of the Day. And what is Miss Shanklin's "little story"? Nothing less than the creation of the modern Middle East at the 1921 Cairo Peace Conference, where Winston Churchill, T. E. Lawrence, and Lady Gertrude Bell met to decide the fate of the Arab world - and of our own. A 40-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio still reeling from the tragedies of the Great War and the influenza epidemic, Agnes has come into a modest inheritance that allows her to take the trip of a lifetime to Egypt and the Holy Land. Arriving at the Semiramis Hotel just as the Peace Conference convenes, Agnes, with her plainspoken American opinions - and a small, noisy dachshund named Rosie - enters into the company of the historic luminaries who will, in the space of a few days at a hotel in Cairo, invent the nations of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan. Neither a pawn nor a participant at the conference, Agnes is ostensibly insignificant, and that makes her a welcome sounding board for Churchill, Lawrence, and Bell. It also makes her unexpectedly attractive to the charismatic German spy Karl Weilbacher. As Agnes observes the tumultuous inner workings of nation-building, she is drawn more and more deeply into geopolitical intrigue and toward a personal awakening. With prose as graceful and effortless as a seductive float down the Nile, Mary Doria Russell illuminates the long, rich history of the Middle East with a story that brilliantly elucidates today's headlines. As enlightening as it is entertaining, Dreamers of the Day is a memorable, passionate, gorgeously written novel.

《世界尽头的水井》是威廉·莫里斯最著名的奇幻文学作品，也是现代奇幻文学的奠基之作。书中采用了诸多中世纪故事的语言元素，构建了一个全新的架空世界，影响了诸如C.S.刘易斯、J.R.R.托尔金等许多奇幻文学大师级人物。你可以在这本书中找到许多大师们的灵感来源，如：古老的石桌、彼得王、一匹名叫银鬃的白色骏马…… 一个叫爱普觅斯的小国由“彼得王”统治着，他有四个儿子，叫布勒斯、修、格雷戈里和拉尔夫。有一天，这四个王子决定闯荡世界，为了生活而奋斗。他们获取了父王的准许后便上路了。之后，故事集中描写了最年轻的王子拉尔夫如何探寻“世界尽头的水井”——传说中很有名的一口井，它具有魔力，可以让饮水之人拥有好运与长寿。路上，王子遇见了曾经饮过井水的女人、神秘的隐士，历经种种冒险，终于找到了这口井。饮过井水的人也面临着精灵们的困惑：长寿到底是赐福还是一种诅咒？ 联袂推荐 “最伟大的牛津人” C·S·刘易斯×《纳尼亚传奇》 现代奇幻文学之父 J·R·R·托尔金×《霍比特人》《魔戒》 世界奇幻科幻文学女王厄休拉·勒古恩ד地海”系列 剑与魔法小说之父 罗伯特·欧文·霍华德×《蛮王柯南》 《女王神剑》 20世纪伟大的恐怖小说家 H·P·洛夫克拉夫特ד克苏鲁神话”系列 克苏鲁神话三圣之一 克拉克·阿什顿·史密斯×《水晶之谜》 世界侦探小说大家 G·K·切斯特顿ד布朗神父”系列

Rarely is a book published that revises our understanding of an entire world region and the history that has defined it. This groundbreaking volume makes just such a contribution. Neil Faulkner draws on ten years of field research to offer the first truly multidisciplinary history of the conflicts that raged in Sinai, Arabia, Palestine, and Syria during the First World War. In Lawrence of Arabia’s War, the author rewrites the history of T. E. Lawrence’s legendary military campaigns in the context of the Arab Revolt. He explores the intersections among the declining Ottoman Empire, the Bedouin tribes, nascent Arab nationalism, and Western imperial ambition. The book provides a new analysis of Ottoman resilience in the face of modern industrialized warfare, and it assesses the relative weight of conventional operations in Palestine and irregular warfare in Syria. Faulkner thus reassesses the historic roots of today’s divided, fractious, war-torn Middle East.

A biography about the life of T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) in the ranks after his wartime campaign in the desert.

★ 22个自由意志撞上时代宿命，捕捉世界重启时的希望与幻灭 ★ 从希望到绝望的彗星年代：世界从未如此充满希望，人类也从未这般迷茫 ★ 《纽约时报》《泰晤士报》齐荐，荣获英国《金融时报》2018年年度好书（评论员精选） ★ 纪念一战结束百年回首之作：100年过去了，世界变得更好了吗？ · 1918年11月11日，法国元帅费迪南·福煦和德意志代表马蒂亚斯·埃茨贝格尔在停战协定上签字，第一次世界大战正式结束。 这一天，德国士兵鲁道夫·赫斯从前线赶回战败的祖国，美国军官哈里·杜鲁门正懒洋洋地享受着蓝莓蛋糕和胜利，英国作家弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫在日记中抱怨安静的生活被庆祝所打破。 所有人都背负不同的过去，面临相同的现实，迎向未知的未来：福煦在和平时期被人遗忘；埃茨贝格尔回国后遭遇刺杀；赫斯成为奥斯维辛集中营指挥官；杜鲁门退伍参政，以总统身份参与另一场世界大战；伍尔夫再也难寻内心的安静，直到投河自尽…… 全书包括了超过20位历史人物，包括但不限于以下这些人物在1918年至1923年的不同遭遇和走向：胡志明、甘地、托马斯·爱德华·劳伦斯（“阿拉伯的劳伦斯”原型）、乔治·格罗兹（德国讽刺画家）、阿诺德·勋伯格（著名作曲家）等等。通过整理书信、日记和相关报道，以人物私人视角来重新还原他们当时眼中的世界。借以蒙太的叙事手法，作者不仅向我们讲述了这些人在影响世界走向之前的故事，并且将他们的命运串联起来，表现了1918年至1923年这个特殊的历史转折时期。 1918这一年就如同彗星般炽焰燃烧又稍纵即逝，整个世界被撕裂成两半，人类处于激情和消沉、狂喜和毁灭之间。千万种可能性在前方招手，所有人将要为一个不确定的未来开始奋斗，或挣扎。 · 丹尼尔·舍恩普夫卢格以一种吸引读者跟随其后的写法，让人进入那难以置信的一年：1918年。通过绝佳的品味、对细节的敏锐和对庞大结构的掌握能力，他重新开启了那个时代，并让他的读者们在书中重新发现自己和20世纪。——菲利普·布罗姆，知名历史学家 在不同的时光中，喧嚣的时间（狠狠地）盖下了它的印迹。舍恩普夫卢格引领读者经历了自己的命运，如此急切，历历在目，如同它刚刚发生一般。——西比勒·列维查洛芙，毕希纳得奖作家 从每天送到英国《金融时报》办公室的麻袋中挑出一本书，几乎是不可能的任务。在最近抵达的众多优秀作品中，我特别喜欢丹尼尔·舍恩普夫卢格的《彗星年代》。通过对一战直接后果的研究，舍恩普夫卢格给原本熟悉的故事提供了新鲜又多样的视角，提醒我们在大屠杀和混乱中曾诞生过一段乐观且充满希望的短暂时光。——弗雷德里克·斯图德曼，英国《金融时报》文学编辑

Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger's record of his extraordinary journey through the parched "Empty Quarter" of Arabia. Educated at Eton and Oxford, Thesiger was repulsed by the softness and rigidity of Western life-"the machines, the calling cards, the meticulously aligned streets." In the spirit of T. E. Lawrence, he set out to explore the deserts of Arabia, traveling among peoples who had never seen a European and considered it their duty to kill Christian infidels. His now-classic account is invaluable to understanding the modern Middle East.

This “richly textured biography” (Chicago Tribune) inspired the mesmerizing documentary, Letters from Baghdad, soon to air on public television. Here is the story of Gertrude Bell, who explored, mapped, and excavated the Arab world throughout the early twentieth century. Recruited by British intelligence during World War I, she played a crucial role in obtaining the loyalty of Arab leaders, and her connections and information provided the brains to match T. E. Lawrence's brawn. After the war, she played a major role in creating the modern Middle East and was, at the time, considered the most powerful woman in the British Empire. In this masterful biography, Janet Wallach shows us the woman behind these achievements–a woman whose passion and defiant independence were at odds with the confined and custom-bound England she left behind. Too long eclipsed by Lawrence, Gertrude Bell emerges at last in her own right as a vital player on the stage of modern history, and as a woman whose life was both a heartbreaking story and a grand adventure.