186 Lawrence sailed for Beirut: Ibid., 76.
187 “They were always talking”: Lawrence, Home Letters, 122.
187 “the spiritual side of his character”: Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 77-78.
188 “Lawrence seems to me”: Ibid., 78.
189 “sit down to it”: Lawrence, Home Letters, 130.
189 “archeological overseer”: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 78.
190 “was flagrantly and evidently an exotic”: Lawrence, Home Letters, 137.
190 “Turkish & Greek”: Ibid.
190 “the Lejah, the lava no-man’s-land”: Ibid.
193 “admitted to six or seven murders”: Aldington, Lawrence of Arabia, 81.
193 “set her before him”: Lawrence, Home Letters, 154.
194 Bell was disappointed: Wallach, Desert Queen, 93.
195 “stained [purple] with Tyrian die”: Aldington, Lawrence of Arabia, 51.
195 “Can you make room”: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 85.
196 “beautifully built and remarkably handsome”: Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 97.
197 “an interesting character”: Lawrence, Home Letters, 173.
198 “I am very well”: Ibid., 176.
198 “efforts to educate himself”: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 95.
199 Apparently impressed by Hogarth’s letters: Ibid., 92.
200 “I am not enthusiastic about Flecker”: Sherwood, No Golden Journey, 47.
202 “Great rumors of war”: Lawrence, Home Letters, 182.
203 Lawrence turned up for digging: Aldington, Lawrence of Arabia, 84-85.
203 “was not an Oxonian”: Ibid., 85.
205 “such as Bedouin sheiks wear”: Ibid., 192.
205 He seems to have been reading: Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 101.
208 “essential immaturity”: Ibid., 85.
208 “frail, pallid, silent”: Ibid., 81.
208 “when the police tried”: Lawrence, Letters from T. E. Lawrence to E. T. Leeds, 43.
209 “explicit promise”: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 103.
210 Lawrence was using Dahoum: Ibid., 104.
211 Those who were closest to Lawrence and Dahoum: Arnold Lawrence (ed.), T. E. Lawrence by His Friends, 89.
214 Lawrence notes in a letter home: Lawrence, Home Letters, 210.
215 “for the foreigner [this country]”: Ibid., 218.
216 He wrote to England for medical advice: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 107.
216 “a big garden”: Sherwood, No Golden Journey, 153.
216 “carelessly flung beneath a tree”: Ibid., 146.
217 “I feel very little the lack”: Lawrence, Home Letters, 230.
217 He wrote to his youngest brother, Arnold: Ibid., 226.
219 “Flecker, the admiral at Malta”: Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 85.
219 “gun-running” incident: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 118.
220 Although skeptics about Lawrence: Graves, Lawrence and the Arabs, 36.
221 “Buswari and his great enemy”: Lawrence, Home Letters, 254.
222 “running around with guns”: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 946.
224 “a place where one eats lotos”: Lawrence, Home Letters, 161.
225 “couldn’t shoot the railway bridge”: Ibid., 255.
225 “a pleasant, healthy warmth”: Ibid.
226 Already there had been protests: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 123-124.
227 “a pocket Hercules”: Lawrence to Edward Marsh, June 10, 1927. Lawrence, Letters, Garnett (ed.), 521.
228 By the end of August: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 126.
228 “the most beautiful town”: Lawrence, Home Letters, 441.
230 “You must not think of Ned”: Ibid., 447.
230 “was still in Ireland”: Ibid., 256.
231 “olive tree boles”: Ibid., 274.
232 “I cannot print with you”: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 132.
232 “from west to east”: Ibid., 137.
234 “approach Kenyon”: Ibid.
234 “Hogarth concurs in the idea”: Ibid., 138.
235 “a picturesque little crusading town”: Lawrence, Home Letters, 281.
238 Newcombe was not dismayed: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 141.
238 “back to Mount Hor”: Lawrence, Home Letters, 286.
240 On March 21, Woolley and Lawrence: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 143-145.
240 A Circassian working for the Germans: Ibid., 144.
241 “the only piece of spying”: Ibid., 147.
241 More interesting still was the amount of information: Ibid.
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248 “In Constantinople the seizure”: Randolph Churchill and Gilbert, Winston Churchill, 1914-1916, Vol. 3, 192.
248 “As the shadows of the night”: Churchill, The World Crisis, Vol. 1, 227.
250 COMMENCE HOSTILITIES: Geoffrey Miller, “Turkey Enters the War and British Actions.” December 1999, http://www.gwpda.org/naval/turk mill.htm.
251 “He’s running my entire department”: Graves, Lawrence and the Arabs, 63.
251 “I want to talk to an officer”: Aldington, Lawrence of Arabia, 124.
252 “as an officer ideally suited”: Ibid., 126.
253 “Clayton stability”: Storrs, Orientations, 179.
254 “a youngster, 2nd Lt. Lawrence”: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 154.
254 “Keep your eye on Afghanistan”: Lawrence, Home Letters, 300.
255 “in the office from morning”: Ibid., 301.
257 “bottle-washer and office boy”: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 167.
257 He was well aware of events: Ibid., 169.
258 “pieced together”: Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 131.
259 Abdulla’s concern was that the Turkish government: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 164-165.
259 One son, Emir Feisal: Antonius, The Arab Awakening, 72.
260 “It may be”: Wilson, Lawrence, 165.
264 “The assault I regret to say”: Lawrence, Home Letters, 721.
264 “You will never understand”: Ibid., 304.
265 “If I do die”: Ibid., 718.
267 “To the excellent and well-born”: Antonius, The Arab Awakening, 167.
271 “a twenty-minute Parliamentary debate”: Storrs, Orientations, 229.
272 “a devout Roman Catholic”: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 193.
273 “There is nothing so bad or so good”: Shaw, Man of Destiny, 87.
274 “every aspect of the Arab question”: Wilson, Lawrence, 235.
274 “bravura”: Ibid., 235.
275 Picot was a master of detail: Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace, 190.
279 It was hoped that a French zone: Ibid., 192.
280 “the imaginative advocate”: Lawrence, SP, 38.
281 “I’ve decided to go off alone”: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 410.
282 “I have not written to you for ever”: Lawrence, Letters from T. E. Lawrence to E. T. Leeds, 110.
283 “I’m fed up, and fed up”: Ibid., 109.
283 The Arab Bulletin was a secret news sheet: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 242.
283 The only one of them: Lawrence, Letters from T. E. Lawrence to E. T. Leeds, 109.
283 “to put the Grand Duke Nicholas in touch with”: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 242.
285 The British Force in Egypt and the British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force: Ibid., 252.
286 “to biff the French out of Syria”: Knightley and Simpson, Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia, 81.
288 “go free on parole”: Aldington, Lawrence of Arabia, 149.
289 Lawrence arrived to undergo a difficult interview: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 268-269.
289 Although Khalil was “extremely nice”: Ibid., 272.
290 “about 32 or 33, very keen & energetic”: Lawrence, Home Letters, 326.
291 “a German field mission led by Baron Othmar von Stotzingen”: Antonius, The Arab Awaken
ing, 191.
292 “pronging playfully at strangers”: Storrs, Orientations, 188.
293 “Long before we met”: Ibid., 221.
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297 if Clayton “thought”: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 419.
297 “he wanted Jerusalem as a Christmas present”: Wavell, Palestine Campaigns, 96.
299 “an obstinate, narrow-minded”: Lawrence, SP, 351.
299 “gracious and venerable patriarch”: Storrs, Orientations, 213.
300 “as usual without obvious coherence”: Lawrence, SP, 352.
300 “half-naked”: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 1079.
300 “in the third little turning to the left”: Ibid., 432.
302 “no spirit of treachery abroad”: Lawrence, SP, 353-355.
302 “Many men of sense and ability”: Arnold Lawrence (ed.), T. E. Lawrence by His Friends, 115.
302 “idle to pretend”: Ibid., 117.
305 “You very good man”: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 441.
309 “a ladder of tribes”: Lawrence, SP, 367.
309 “tip and run” tactics: Ibid., 368.
311 It is a tribute to Lawrence’s skill: Ibid., 367-383.
312 “in a chilled voice”: Ibid., 387.
312 “a squadron of airplanes”: Ibid., 388.
313 “his best man present”: Ibid., 392.
313 “strange flat of yellow mud”: Ibid., 398.
317 “Out of the darkness”: Ibid., 407.
317 “a shambles of the group”: Ibid., 408.
320 “I hope when this nightmare ends”: Lawrence, Letters from T. E. Lawrence to E. T. Leeds, 106.
321 “He who gives himself to the possession”: Lawrence, SP, 11.
325 “African knobkerri”: Ibid., 429.
325 “on a series of identical steel bridges”: Ibid., 432.
326 “unfit for active service”: Ibid., 433.
329 “could outstrip a trotting camel”: Ibid.
330 “luscious”: Ibid., 447.
331 “They had lost two men”: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 450-455.
331 “war, tribes and camels without end”: Lawrence, SP, 450.
331 “like the mutter of a distant”: Ibid., 450.
332 “Beware of Abd el Kader”: Ibid.
333 “held what might well be the world’s record”: Ibid., 453.
333 “some 40,000 troops of all arms”: Wavell, Palestine Campaigns, 117.
333 “dismounted and cleaned up”: Ibid., 123.
334 “General Allenby’s plan”: Ibid.
334 “nothing would persuade”: Lawrence, SP, 462.
334 “steeped in an unfathomable pool”: Ibid., 464.
335 “I only hope TEL”: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 455, citing D. G. Hogarth to his wife, November 11, 1917, Hogarth Papers, St. Antony’s College, Oxford.
336 The fumes from the explosive: Lawrence, SP, 471.
338 “pointing and staring”: Ibid., 478.
339 “ran like a rabbit”: Ibid., 481.
339 “in front of [him]”: Ibid., 483.
340 “gashing his tongue deeply”: Ibid., 485.
340 he searched for consolation: Knightley and Simpson, Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia, 263.
341 “an outlaw with a price”: Lawrence, SP, 493.
341 “a trimmed beard”: Ibid.
342 “a lame and draggled pair”: Ibid., 495.
343 “The garrison commander at Deraa”: Knightley and Simpson, Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia, 217.
344 “They kicked me to the landing”: Lawrence, SP, 498-502.
349 “About that night”: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 739; T. E. Lawrence to Charlotte Shaw, March 26, 1924, British Library, London, Add. MS 45903.
351 “he seemed like a wraith”: Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia, 293.
352 “the most memorable event of the war”: Lawrence, SP, 508.
352 “all institutions holy to Christians”: Adelson, Mark Sykes, 245.
353 “had stuck another medal”: Lawrence, Home Letters, 345.
354 “seated at the same table”: Thomas, With Lawrence in Arabia, 3-6.
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355 “Two names had come to dominate”: Storrs, Orientations, 318.
356 “When he was in the middle of the stage”: Arnold Lawrence (ed.), T. E. Lawrence by His Friends, 245.
358 “twenty thousand pounds alive”: Lawrence, SP, 520.
358 “hard riders”: Ibid., 526.
358 “The British at Aqaba”: Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia, 207-208.
358 He also used his bodyguard as shock troops: Ibid., 209.
359 “almost level with the south end”: Ibid., 210.
360 “simultaneously from the east”: Lawrence, SP, 513.
360 “an amnesty for the Arab Revolt”: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 469.
361 “Jam Catholics on the Holy Places”: Ibid., 467, from Sir T. B. M. Sykes to Sir F. R. Wingate, for G. F. Clayton, telegram 75, 16.1.1918. FO 371/3383 fo. 14.
361 Lawrence spent the early days of January: Ibid., 475.
362 “neither my impulses nor my convictions”: Lawrence, SP, 529.
362 “let our man go free”: Ibid.
363 “I had not expected anything”: Ibid., 530.
364 The Turkish garrison: Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia, 214.
365 “The defences of Tafila”: Ibid.
365 “three… battalions of infantry”: Ibid., 215.
366 “To make war upon rebellion”: Ibid., 135.
366 “There is nothing I desire”: Ibid., 133.
368 “rushed to save their goods”: Lawrence, SP, 538.
368 “I would rake up all the old maxims”: Ibid., 539.
370 Not many officers: Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia, 217.
370 “the climb would warm me”: Army Quarterly, Vol. II, no. 1, April 1929, 26.
371 “The bullets slapped off it deafeningly”: Ibid., 28.
372 “a Damascene, a sardonic fellow”: Lawrence, SP, 149.
373 “In the end”: Army Quarterly, Vol. II, no. 1, April 1929, 30.
373 Arab losses were about twenty-five killed: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 476.
374 As was so often the case with Lawrence: Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia, 220.
374 “brilliant mind”: Lawrence, SP, 579.
375 “the complete ruin of my plans”: Ibid., 568.
376 “will was gone”: Ibid., 572.
376 “that pretence to lead the national uprising”: Ibid., 571.
376 “made a mess of things”: Ibid.
377 “a very sick man”: Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia, 233.
377 “a cog himself”: Ibid.
377 “solitary in the ranks”: Title of a book by H. Montgomery Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks: Lawrence of Arabia as Airman and Private Soldier (London: Constable, 1977).
378 “letting[him] off”: Lawrence, SP, 752.
379 “to knock Turkey out of the war”: Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia, 224.
379 In the end all he would get: Ibid.
379 “to take up again my mantle”: Lawrence, SP, 572.
379 “where the Arabs would easily defeat [them]”: Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia, 227.
380 “between pincers”: Ibid.
380 “that skirt-wearers”: Lawrence, SP, 574.
381 “reeling backwards on Amiens”: Wavell, Palestine Campaigns, 183.
382 Lawrence’s “understudy”: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 491.
382 “Lawrence really counted more”: Young, The Independent Arab, 143, quoted in Wilson, Lawrence, 491.
384 “the Grand Cross of the Order”: Thomas, With Lawrence in Arabia, 391.
384 “[sailed] fifteen hundred miles”: Ibid., 111.
384 “Hindus, Somalis, Berberines”: Ibid., 118.
; 384 “was kicked overboard”: Ibid., 120.
384 “Lawrence himself came down”: Ibid., 121.
385 “To accompany Lawrence and his body-guard”: Ibid., 183.
386 “was never in the Arab firing line”: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 494, from T. E. Lawrence to E. M. Forster, June 17, 1925, King’s College, Cambridge.
386 “My cameraman, Mr. Chase”: Thomas, With Lawrence in Arabia, 369.
387 “the rose-red city”: Mona Mackay, quoted ibid., 218.
388 “openness and honesty in their love”: Lawrence, SP, 581.
390 “these bonds between man and man”: Ibid., 582.
390 “privately… implored Jaafar”: Ibid., 584.
390 “Turk was man enough not to shoot me”: Ibid., 590.
391 “Mitfleh with honeyed words”: Ibid., 591.
393 “For this reason”: Ibid., 598.
394 “a grown man”: Knightley and Simpson, Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia, 163.
394 “in sight of Maan”: Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia, 232.
394 “Greetings, Lurens”: Ibid., 234.
395 “like the hypnotic influence”: Ibid.
396 “Only once or twice”: Lawrence, SP, 630.
397 “To some degree Seven Pillars of Wisdom”: Holroyd, Bernard Shaw, 1918-1950: The Lure of Fantasy, Vol. III, 86.
397 “an uncommon face”: Saint Joan (New York: Random House, 1952), 62.
398 Lawrence seems to have been involved: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 511.
399 “without Feisal’s knowledge”: Ibid., 512.
399 “at Arab Headquarters”: Ibid., 513.
399 “almost feminine charm”: Pakenham, Peace by Ordeal, 49.
400 “under British colours”: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 514.
400 “Mohammed Said, Abd el Kader’s brother”: Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia, 254.
401 “Relations between Lawrence and ourselves”: Ibid., 251.
401 “Lawrence… could certainly not have done”: Young, The Independent Arab, 157.
402 “no later than September 16th”: Ibid., 205.
402 “three men and a boy”: Lawrence, SP, 462.
402 “on the condition that”: Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia, 250.
403 “emphasizing the mystical enchantment”: Ibid., 257.
404 “a mixed sense of ease”: Ibid., 258.
405 “I could flatter”: Ibid., 262.
405 “the desert had become”: Ibid., 263.
406 “He had removed”: Ibid., 264.
406 “it was ever [his] habit”: Ibid., 266.
407 “creating dust columns”: Ibid., 274.