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Young Lawrence - A Portrait of the Legend as a Young Man (Paperback)
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Young Lawrence - A Portrait of the Legend as a Young Man (Paperback)
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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 Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 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, his deep affection
for an Arab boy, 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. Young Lawrence is the first
book to focus on the story of T. E. Lawrence in his twenties,
before the war, during the period he looked back on as his golden
years. Using first-hand sources, museum records and Foreign Office
documents, Sattin sets these adventures against the background of
corrosive conflicts in Libya and the Balkans. He shows the
simmering defiance of Arabs, Armenians and Kurds under Turkish
domination, while uncovering the story of an exceptional young man
searching for happiness, love and his place in the world until war
changed his life forever.
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