Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Author(s): Scott Anderson
Finalist for the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography One of the Best Books of the Year: "The Christian Science MonitorNPRThe Seattle Times St. Louis Post-Dispatch Chicago Tribune" A "New York Times" Notable Book The Arab Revolt against the Turks in World War I was, in the words of T. E. Lawrence, "a sideshow of a sideshow." As a result, the conflict was shaped to a remarkable degree by a small handful of adventurers and low-level officers far removed from the corridors of power. At the center of it all was Lawrence himself. In early 1914 he was an archaeologist excavating ruins in Syria; by 1917 he was riding into legend at the head of an Arab army as he fought a rearguard action against his own government and its imperial ambitions. Based on four years of intensive primary document research, "Lawrence in Arabia" definitively overturns received wisdom on how the modern Middle East was formed.
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Scott Anderson is a veteran war correspondent who has reported from Lebanon, Israel, Egypt, Northern Ireland, Chechnya, Sudan, Bosnia, El Salvador and many other strife-torn countries. A frequent contributor to the "New York Times Magazine," his work has also appeared in "Vanity Fair, ""Esquire, Harper's" and "Outside." He is the author of novels "Moonlight Hotel" and "Triage "and of non-fiction books "The Man Who Tried to Save the World" and "The 4 O'Clock Murders, " and co-author of "War Zones" and "Inside The League "with his brother Jon Lee Anderson.
General Fields
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- : Anchor Books
- : Anchor Books
- : 0.771
- : 02 June 2014
- : 234mm X 160mm X 32mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : Scott Anderson
- : Paperback / softback
- : 940.412
- : 624