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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> So much has been written of Lawrence. Tales of derring-do beneath the hot sun of Arabia cap- tured the imagination of a British public repelled by the reality of the mud-filled trenches on the Somme and eager to romanticise this more exotic theatre of war and its players. Lawrence’s actions motives and writings have been subjected to an infin- ite degree of critical analysis with biographers and reviewers alike enthusiastically dipping their pens into everything from whitewash to the blackest tar. Only in recent years has a more balanced approach seemed possible aided of course by a more rational climate of opinion in which our heroes need no longer be hailed as saints either to be worshipped or cast down as false idols and there is a more ready acceptance of their fleet of clay.