CHAPTER ELEVEN: “Solitary in the Ranks”
CHAPTER TWELVE: Apotheosis
EPILOGUE: Life after Death
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Advance Praise forHERO
ALSO BY MICHAEL KORDA
Illustration Credits
Copyright
About the Publisher
List of Maps
The Arab area of the Ottoman Empire in 1914
Turkey’s Lifeline: Schematic map of the vital railway lines in the Ottoman Empire
Aqaba-Maan zone
The Hejaz Railway
The Northern Theater: The area of the advance of Allenby and the Arab army on Damascus
The Battle of Tafileh
Sketch map of the Middle East, showing the divisions proposed in the Sykes-Picot agreement
Lawrence’s own map of his proposals for the Middle East, which he prepared for the war cabinet in 1918, and for the Paris Peace Conference in 1919
About the Author
MICHAEL KORDAis the New York Timesbestselling author of Charmed Lives, Ike, Country Matters, Ulysses S. Grant, and Journey to a Revolution. He is Editor in Chief Emeritus of Simon & Schuster, and he lives in Dutchess County, New York.
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Advance Praise for
HERO
“ Herois a full-scale, major event, a great biography written with a sweeping understanding of history, military realities, geography, and politics, and filled with a wealth of character studies. The triumph of the book is Michael Korda’s brilliant, always balanced portrait of the infinitely fascinating Lawrence of Arabia, the relevance of which, now in our time, is of greater importance than ever.”
—David McCullough
“T. e. Lawrence is next to impossible to fix on the page. Yet Michael Korda has done so, delivering up a crowded, improbable life in a page-turning biography, every bit as rich as its protean subject. A splendid read.”
—Stacy Schiff, author of Cleopatra: A Life
“Michael Korda’s new biography of Lawrence of Arabia is bighearted and provocative—a page-turner that also helps us understand how the Middle east became the confused mess it is today. Herois a magnificent achievement.”
—Nathaniel Philbrick, author of The Last Stand
“Much has been written about him, but no one has succeeded in illuminating the quintessential Lawrence of Arabia so profoundly and as well as Michael Korda. Herois a work of brilliance, discernment, and meticulous scholarship that surely will be hailed as the gold standard.”
—Henry A. Kissinger
“Lawrence of Arabia, one of the great heroes of any age, has found the right b iographer in Michael Korda—a keen judge of the human condition and a master storyteller who can separate myth from reality without diminishing the grandeur of his subject.”
—evan Thomas, author of The War Lovers
“A magisterial biography. … Korda’s vivid portrait of Lawrence and his warring impulses captures the brilliance and charisma of this fascinating figure.”
— Publishers Weekly(starred review)
“A splendid biography about a most unusual and extraordinary individual.”
—Hugh Thomas, author of The Spanish Civil War
Illustration Credits
INTERIOR PAGES
Title page: top:National Portrait Gallery, London, bottom:courtesy of Kevin Kwan; page xx:“The Sword also Means Cleanness and Death,” front cover of Seven Pillars of Wisdomby T. E. Lawrence (published 1935) The Bridgeman Art Library; page 3:courtesy of Constable & Robinson Ltd; page 67:Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, the University of Texas at Austin / estate of John David Roberts. By courtesy of the William Roberts Society; pages 75 and 97:the executors of Lady Liddell Hart, deceased; page 103:Imperial War Museum, Negative No. IWM Q59193; page 108:by Eric Kennington, courtesy of the family of the artist; page 201:from No Golden Journey: Life of James Elroy Fleckerby John Sherwood; page 213:(c)The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved 11/01/2010, Add.MS.50584ff.115; page 245:(c) Topham / The Image Works; page 304:by Sir Mark Sykes, with kind permission of Sir Tatton Sykes; pages 308 and 324:the executors of Lady Liddell Hart, deceased; page 338:by Eric Kennington, courtesy of family of the artist; page 369:the executors of Lady Liddell Hart, deceased; page 383:(c)Seven Pillars of Wisdom Trust; page 431:courtesy of the Rolls-Royce Enthusiasts’ Club; page 441:by James McBey, Imperial War Museum, Negative No. IWM ART 2473; page 456:by Sir Mark Sykes, with kind permission of Sir Tatton Sykes; page 459:Imperial War Museum, Negative No. IWM Q55581; page 464:from Lawrence of Arabia: The Life, the Legendby Malcolm Brown, published by Thames & Hudson Ltd; page 609:Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, MS. Photogr.c.126, Fol.34r; page 636:from The Golden Reignby Clare Sydney Smith; page 665:Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, MS. Photogr.c.126, Fol.71r; page 685:Collection, National Gallery of Ireland, (c)the artist’s estate, photo (c)National Gallery of Ireland.
PHOTOGRAPHIC INSERTS
COLOR
Page 1:(c)Tate, London 2010; page 2: top:(c)Seven Pillars of Wisdom Trust, bottom left:Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, bottom right:(c)Seven Pillars of Wisdom Trust; page 3: top:(c)Seven Pillars of Wisdom Trust, bottom:Imperial War Museum, Negative No. IWM ART 1553; page 4: top:James A. Cannavino Library, Archives & Special Collections, Lowell Thomas Papers, Marist College, USA, bottom:Imperial War Museum, Negative No. IWM FIR 8255; page 5: top left:Imperial War Museum, Negative No. IWM 1567, top right and bottom:James A. Cannavino Library, Archives & Special Collections, Lowell Thomas Papers, Marist College, USA; page 6: top left:Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, the University of Texas at Austin, top right:(c)Seven Pillars of Wisdom Trust, bottom:James A. Cannavino Library, Archives & Special Collections, Lowell Thomas Papers, Marist College, USA; page 7: James A. Cannavino Library, Archives & Special Collections, Lowell Thomas Papers, Marist College, USA; page 8: top:from The Arab Awakeningby George Antonius, bottom:National Archives, U.K.