Question: The Beast Reawakens opens with a quote from an autobiographical account of the experiences of British soldier T. E. Lawrence because it was the favorite book of what Nazi commando?

Context articles: The Passing of the Armies
The Beast Reawakens
Memoir (John McGahern book)
The Land Remembers
Some Girls: My Life in a Harem
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Gangrene (book)
Beni Virtzberg
Martín Prechtel
Briton Hammon

The Passing of the Armies, full title The Passing of the Armies; An Account of the Final Campaign of the Army of the Potomac, Based Upon Personal Reminiscences of the Fifth Army Corps is an American Civil War memoir written by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, a renowned commander most famous for his actions on Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg.
 It is an autobiographical account describing Chamberlain's experiences throughout the latter half of the Civil War, on and off the battlefield.
 It follows his accounts through Petersburg, White Oak Road, Five Forks, and Appomattox (where Chamberlain was given the honor of accepting the Confederate surrender).
 Throughout the book, Chamberlain frequently expresses his respect for the soldiers of both the Confederacy and the Union.
 It was published by Putnam and Sons in 1915, a year after Chamberlain's death.
The Beast Reawakens (later prints carried the subtitle Fascism's Resurgence from Hitler's Spymasters to Today's Neo-Nazi Groups and Right-Wing Extremists) is a 1997 book by investigative journalist Martin A. Lee, in which he tells the story of old-guard fascists' strategy for survival and the revival of fascism since 1944.
 Special attention is given to ODESSA actions during the Cold War, international fascist networks, and political inroads to the right-wing mainstream.
 The book opens with a quotation from T. E. Lawrence's "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" (1922), a favorite of Hitler's favorite commando, SS-Standartenführer Otto Skorzeny.
Memoir (published in North America as "All Will Be Well") is an autobiographical account of the childhood of Irish writer John McGahern.
 It was published in 2005, and the writer died in 2006.
 It recalls, amongst other things, his formative years in Leitrim, Ireland, the death of his beloved mother, Susan, and his relationship with his dark and enigmatic father.
 Themes from his childhood experiences run throughout his canon of fiction.
The Land Remembers is the autobiographical account of Ben Logan, first published in 1975 by Heartland Press.
 Logan was raised on his family's farm, Seldom Seen, in the southwest Wisconsin hill country.
 The book explores Logan's early childhood in the 1930s, giving his personal account of his memories and life experiences, and the lessons he learned from his parents, neighbors and three older brothers.
Some Girls: My Life in a Harem is a book published in 2010.
 Is Jillian Lauren's autobiographical account of her experiences as one of short-term or long-term
Seven Pillars of Wisdom is the autobiographical account of the experiences of British soldier T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia"), while serving as a liaison officer with rebel forces during the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Turks of 1916 to 1918.
Gangrene is a 1976 book written by Flemish writer and former Assistant Direct Commissioner in the Belgian Congo Jef Geeraerts.
 Also referred to as Black Venus, this is the first of four books belonging to Geeraerts’ "Gangrene" cycle.
 The narrator bears the author’s name, and the book is widely considered to be a fictionalized yet largely autobiographical account of Geeraerts’ experiences in the Belgian Congo towards the end of the Belgian colonial era, leading towards the Congo’s independence in 1960.
Beni Virtzberg (Hebrew: בני וירצברג‎ ‎ ; August 12, 1928 – August 4, 1968) was an Israeli forester, Holocaust survivor and writer who was among the first in Israel to write an autobiographical account of his experiences during and after the Holocaust.
 He began writing his book “Migei Haharega Lesha'ar Hagai" (“From the Valley of Slaughter to the Gate of the Valley") in the wake of the Adolf Eichmann trial, when court testimony by survivors prompted Israelis to openly and publicly discuss what the survivors had lived through.
Martín Prechtel is an author, painter, musician and educator.
 Among his writings are "Secrets of the Talking Jaguar", an autobiographical account of his initiation as a Mayan Shaman; "Long Life, Honey in the Heart", an account of his village life in Santiago Atitlán (Guatemala); "Stealing Benefacio's Roses: A Mayan Epic" (formerly titled "The Toe Bone and The Tooth"), an autobiographical account of how he relived an ancient Maya myth in his own life; and "The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun", a Maya myth that includes Prechtel's observations of how the Maya relate to the story.
 His newest book (2015) is "The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise".
 His works also include various musical recordings and paintings.
 An audio recording of a lecture he gave called "Grief and Praise" was released by someone else, although he has now regained ownership of it.
 He orchestrates "gatherings" and workshops around the country as well as curating his own school called "Bolad's Kitchen".
Briton Hammon was an enslaved person of African descent who lived in British North America during the middle of the 18th century.
 On December 25th, 1747, by leave of his master, Hammon left his home in Marshfield, Massachusetts to board a ship in neighboring Plymouth to work on a sailing ship headed for Jamaica.
 On June 15, 1748, the ship wrecked and he and the crew were cast away off the coast of Florida, beginning a series of hardships and adventures he chronicled in an autobiographical account, A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing ["sic"] Deliverance of Briton Hammon, A Negro Man, first published in 1760.
 His experiences after the shipwreck included being held captive by Florida Indians, spending four years in a Spanish prison in Cuba, rescue by a British lieutenant who smuggles him on board a British man-o-war, and then serving several years in the British navy before suffering wounds during a skirmish with a French warship.
 Hammon was honorably discharged from the Royal Navy, and recounts being reunited with his old Master in London.
 The narrative concludes with his master taking him back to New England.