Tafas, Turkish brutality in, 418–24, 686Tafileh:Arab victory at, 380battle of, 365–73, 369, 383as military goal, 359, 360, 365Tala Bey, 285nTalal el Hareidhin, sheik of Tafas, 341, 417, 419–21, 422, 424Talleyrand-Pйrigord, Charles-Maurice de, 270Tell Ahmar, archaeological site at, 197–98Tell el Shehab, bridge at, 334–40, 341, 343, 352, 410Thatcher, Lady Margaret, 449 ’at Hamilton Woman(film), 690nTheater Guild, 596Thomas, Fran, 493Thomas, Lowell, 353–54, 366, 478–82in Aqaba, 383–88in Jerusalem, 354and “Lawrence of Arabia” films, 361, 384, 386, 387, 690, 693and “Lawrence of Arabia” myth, 355–56, 361, 385, 388, 442, 443, 479–82, 493–94, 526, 623, 662, 695, 698London performance of, 492–94as promoter, 478, 480, 493, 593n With Lawrence in Arabia, 140n, 321, 385, 386, 525–26, 603, 624, 662, 689, 696Thomas а Becket, 405Thompson, R. Campbell, 189, 190, 191, 193, 194, 196, 197, 202Thompson, W. H., 518–19, 522Thomson, Christopher B., Lord, 646, 647–49, 650, 651, 652, 656Thorndyke, Dame Sybil, 596Thurtle, Ernest, 639–40, 641 Times, the (London):and Lawrence obituary, 671Lawrence’s letters to, 199, 464, 486, 505, 593 Literary Supplement, 623 Sunday Times, 582n, 583Tolstoy, Leo, War and Peace, 319Townshend, Charles, 287, 288, 289–90, 295Toynbee, Arnold, 472, 473, 506Trad, and Anazeh tribe, 423, 424Trans-Jordan, seeJordanTrenchard, Hugh Montague, 1st Viscount Trenchard:and Lawrence’s fame, 635, 638, 639, 643Lawrence’s letters to, 210, 580, 597, 615–16, 619, 624, 625–26, 628, 631, 633, 640, 642, 656and Lawrence’s RAF enlistment, 537, 540–41, 542–43, 550, 559, 564–65, 569, 572and Lawrence’s re-enlistment, 591, 605, 606Lawrence’s relationship with, 236, 514, 537, 597, 639, 648, 650and Lawrence’s release from RAF, 569, 572, 574, 575–76, 639and Lawrence’s transfers in RAF, 617, 635, 640, 660as metropolitan commissioner of police, 653and ’e Mint, 553–54and RAF, 514, 536RAF Benefolent Fund created by, 622retirement of, 648, 653and Seven Pillars, 615–16, 617, 624Trotsky, Leon, 280Tucker, Sophie, 630Tunisia, as French colonial possession, 442Turkey:aircraft of, 14, 52, 409–10Armenian genocide by, 37, 221, 223, 263, 304, 373, 398, 475–76army of, seeTurkish armyand British foreign policy, 12–13diverse population of, 225, 253, 304legal code of, 56Muslims in, 14and negotiated peace, 301–2, 303–6, 398–99peace with Russia, 381, 398railroads of, 24, 75, 297, 309, 530–31strategic importance of, 12–13war with Balkan states, 215, 218, 222and World War I, 246“Young Turks” in, 163, 168, 185, 199 see alsoOttoman EmpireTurki, tribal leader, 391Turkish army:Arab actions against, 99–100; see also specific siteswith Central Powers in World War I, 10, 13, 233, 249–50corruption of, 4–5, 215cruelty to prisoners, 5, 36–37, 85n, 96, 288, 325, 349firefight with, 98German support of, 20, 36, 104, 285, 287, 311, 391, 411, 416, 421, 423, 424guarding archaeological sites, 192Lawrence’s knowledge about, 7, 258official handbook of, 258in retreat, 412, 413, 414, 415–17, 422–23, 428–29strategies of, 27, 70superiority to Arabian army, 20, 35, 36, 53, 57surrender of, 101–2, 292, 412, 697underestimated by British, 4Turkish Museum, 193Turkish navy, 246–47and German warships, 248–50Tutankhamun, King, tomb of, 203nTwain, Mark, 386“Twenty-Seven Articles” (Lawrence), 56
Um Lejj, Arab army at, 63Umtaiye:airstrip constructed at, 414railway demolition at, 407–11United Arab Republic, 697U.S. Army, 686
Verdun, battle of, 45Vickers-Supermarine Aviation Works, 643Vickery, Charles, 63, 64, 65, 66Victoria Cross, 112, 113n, 143, 373, 518Vietcong, 309Voltaire, 253, 688
Wadi Ais:Abdulla’s camp at, 60, 71, 73, 74, 76Arab position in, 60, 63, 76Lawrence’s journey to, 73–74Wadi Hamdh, 65Wadi Hesa, 365Wadi Itm, 101–2Wadi Rumm, 312–13, 329Wadi Safra, Lawrence’s visits to, 30–31, 37–38, 42, 52–53Wadi Sirhan, 90, 92, 95, 96, 281Wadi Yenbo, 52–59Wahhabi tribe, as followers of ibn Saud, 55, 88, 483, 484, 526, 625Walpole, Hugh, 617war cabinet, Eastern Committee:Lawrence’s meetings with, 444–47, 451–52, 456, 461reports from Middle East to, 454–55War Office:Lawrence’s duties with, 7, 485Lawrence’s oГenses against, 505Wasta, hospitality in, 30–31Waugh, Evelyn, 482 Officers and Gentlemen, 236 Scoop, 361Wavell, A. P., 626, 687on Lawrence’s demolition skills, 408Lawrence’s friendship with, 236, 321and Lawrence’s funeral, 679on Lawrence’s writing, 369, 373, 594Waziristan, RAF station in, 631–34Webb, Beatrice, 470, 570Webb, Sidney, 570Weintraub, Stanley, 397Weizmann, Chaim, 531Weizmann-Feisal discussions, 399–400, 463, 465–68, 476Wejh:Arab army move to, 60–61, 64–66, 76, 307Arab capture of, 66, 68Feisal’s camp at, 69–70, 81Turkish control of, 21, 64Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, duke of, 112, 145, 373, 688, 690Wells, H. G., 617, 659Wemyss, Sir Rosslyn, 44, 45, 83, 108West, Anthony, 659West, Rebecca, 659Wigram, Clive, 439, 447Wilde, Oscar, 157, 556William II, Kaiser, 351, 453Williamson, Henry, 675–76Wilson, Sir Arnold, 517, 593nWilson, Cyril, 62, 90in Jidda, 11, 14, 49, 51, 60, 300Lawrence recommended for DSO by, 112and plans for Arab Revolt, 40, 82Wilson, Jeremy, Lawrence’s correspondence edited by, 694–95Wilson, Jeremy: Lawrence of Arabia, 695on Arab-Turkish negotiations, 398on Bruce, 582non Feisal portrait, 504on Lawrence in RAF, 552, 564on Lawrence’s embellishments of his story, 442on Lawrence’s sailing skills, 662on Lawrence’s schooling, 151on Lawrence’s wartime accomplishments, 694on Seven Pillars, 500, 574on Thomas’s time with Lawrence, 385Wilson, Michael, 692Wilson, Woodrow:on European colonial acquisitions, 305Fourteen Points of, 454, 455meeting of Lawrence and, 472–73Middle East commitments avoided by, 475, 476, 484and Paris Peace Conference, 210, 454, 458, 460, 472, 473, 474, 475, 476on secret treaties, 414, 444, 455and Thomas, 353, 384Winckler, Hugo, 184Wingate, Orde, 29, 687Wingate, Sir Reginald, 44–47, 47, 236, 277as British high commissioner in Egypt, 45, 273as governor-general of Sudan, 12, 27, 36, 44, 257and Kitchener, 246and Lawrence’s assignments, 49, 252and Lawrence’s military strategies, 29, 112, 298, 518, 687personal traits of, 46–47and RFC aircraft, 14, 52as sirdarof Egyptian army, 282as supporter of Arab Revolt, 44, 45, 47, 76Winterton, Lord Edward, 408, 417–18, 424, 425, 440, 443, 610Wood, C. E., 326, 336, 337Wood, Gar, 649Woolf, Leonard, 622Woolley, Charles Leonard, 211and Carchemish site, 202, 206–9, 210, 214, 218, 219, 221, 224, 230, 240and Palestine mapping expedition, 234, 235, 236–38and World War I, 246, 250, 252, 257World War I:Allied Powers in, 10, 242, 252, 304, 305Battle of the Somme, 45, 277Battle of Verdun, 275, 277, 460Central Powers in, 10, 13, 232, 233, 242, 249–50Dardanelles campaign, 509events in Europe overshadowing Arabia in, 381–82events leading to, 13, 204, 242Gallipoli, 4, 29, 263–64, 277, 282, 285, 290, 295and Kitchener, 244–46, 245, 262, 264, 265–66, 274Lawrence as famed hero of, 492, 493, 536, 686, 687Lawrence brothers in, 243–44as military disaster, 663and postwar peace, seeParis Peace Conferenceand postwar territorial demands, 453–54, 468–69and Sarajevo assassination, 242stalemate in, 398surrender of Central Powers in, 417, 453U.S. entry into, 305, 353, 381World War II, 309, 698Churchill’s speeches in, 654French Resistance movement in, 332Spitfire aircraft in, 643