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T. E. Lawrence was one of the most charismatic characters of the First World War; a young archaeologist who fought with the Arabs and wrote an epic and very personal account of their revolt against the Turks in 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom'. Yet this was not the first book to carry that iconic title. In 1914 the man who would become Lawrence of Arabia burnt the first draft, a manuscript in which he described his adventures in the Middle East during the five years before the war. Anthony Sattin uncovers the story Lawrence wanted to conceal: the truth of his birth, his tortuous relationship with a dominant mother, the intimate details of the extraordinary journeys he took through the region with which his name is forever connected and the personal reasons that drove him from being a student to becoming an archaeologist and a spy. An even greater secret was his chaste love for Ahmed, a clever and beautiful Syrian to whom, under the initials ‘S.A.’, he dedicated ‘Seven Pillars of Wisdom’.
Author: Anthony Sattin
Paperback, 336 Pages, Orig. Published 2014, This Edition Published September 2015