With Lawrence in Arabia
By: by Lowell Thomas; original photographs taken by H. A. Chase, F.R.G.S., and by the author.
Publisher: The Century co.
Published: 1924
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
Subjects: Lawrence, T. E. 1888-1935; World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Middle East; British -- Middle East -- History -- 20th century; Orientalists -- Great Britain -- Biography; Archaeologists -- Middle East -- Biography; World War, 1914-1918 -- Arab countries; Soldiers -- Great Britain -- Biography
Description: It was 1918 in Jerusalem, when the admiring young American scholar and journalist Lowell Thomas first met T.E. Lawrence. He went on to write With Lawrence in Arabia, a book that sparked the Lawrence of Arabia legend and was the basis of the celebrated film. With brilliant narrative verve, Lowell recounts the exploits of the young British agent who managed to weld disparate and warring Arab tribes into a formidable mobile fighting force - a guerilla army that would defeat the Turks in the Arab Revolt, sealing the fate of the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East during World War I. On a canvas whose background is the fierce, inhospitable desert and in whose foreground stride the Emir Feisal, King Hussein I of the Hedjaz, the British General Allenby, and the strange, hypnotic figure of Lawrence himself, Thomas paints a vivid portrait of the “modern knight of Arabia.”