I was aware before starting that this was a somewhat unreliable account of the exploits of Lawrence on the Eastern Front during WWI but the Introduction introduced such a level of scepticism that it tainted my reading; I was forever wondering what was true, what was exaggerated, what entirely fabric...
Finally, finally got around to reading this book. I wanted to ever since I first saw the film almost 20 years ago. It is a remarkable story told in much detail - and in very beautiful language. I'm not much interested in the strategic details, but I found Lawrence's descriptions of his own thought...
[Thee notes were made in 1984. Lawrence wrote the bare bones of this book as a journal during his first stint in the R.A.F. (under the pseudonym of Ross). He does not tell of the discovery, after a few months, that he was actually Lawrence of Arabia. What he tells of, as the title suggests, is a s...
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