I'm sure the story of Lawrence is a familiar one to many people, but I hadn't been well informed on the Ottoman front for WWI. When I picked up this book, I thought it would be wider in historical scope, focusing on the "Making of the Modern Middle East" part of the title -- I thought it would star...
Very timely book, the product of years of research, and many are reading it now, in the midst of the civil war in Syria, and the debate over the level of our involvement. Anderson comments in the Epilogue, ". . . what might have happened if the United States had risen to the opportunity presented a...
“Among the many individual stories of World War I that will doubtless be told and retold for the centenary years between 2014 and 2018, that of T.E. Lawrence stands out from all the rest…[Anderson’s] book could not be better timed. As global attention is drawn to Syria and Egypt, it is arresting to...