Syrian recruitment mission of, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 14.1, 14.2
Syrian Crusader castle tour of
at Tafas, 18.1, 18.2
in Tafileh, 16.1, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4
as temporary liaison officer to Faisal
trademark sarcasm of
Turkish hospital incident and
uncomfortable camel ride of
at Victoria Hotel meeting, 18.1, 18.2
at War Office, 4.1, 4.2
Will Lawrence’s last meeting with
Yale and, 4.1, 16.1, 17.1, epi.1
Yarmuk mission of, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 17.1, 17.2, 18.1
Lawrence, Will, 2.1, 4.1, 6.1
death of, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2
Lawrence of Arabia (film), 13.1, 13.2, 14.1
Lawrenceville School
League of Nations, proposed
Lean, David, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1
Lebanon, 2.1, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 16.1, epi.1
Christians in, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2
civil war in
France’s claim on, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 13.1, 13.2
modern-day, 18.1, epi.1, nts.1n
show trial of Arab nationalists in
Leeds, Edward, 3.1, 4.1, 7.1, 7.2, 14.1, 15.1, 17.1
Légion d’Honneur
Lenin, V. I., 12.1, 16.1
Lepsius, Karl
“Lewis” (Australian officer)
Libya, Italian invasion of, 1.1, 2.1
Liddell Hart, Basil, 6.1, nts.1n
Lishansky, Joseph, 10.1, 13.1, 15.1, 17.1, nts.1n
Lloyd, George, 4.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 16.1
Lloyd George, David, 10.1, 12.1, 15.1, 18.1, epi.1, epi.2
Clemenceau’s agreement with
London, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 14.5, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 17.1, 18.1
Loytved-Hardegg, Julius
Lynden-Bell, Arthur, 9.1, 11.1, 12.1
Maan, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5, 17.1
Lawrence’s mission to
Maan-Aqaba road
Maccabean Society
MacDonogh, George
Macedonia, 12.1, 18.1
McGovern, Rudolf, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2
in Kornub, 3.1, 7.1, epi.1
machine guns, 4.1, 9.1, 11.1, 11.2, 14.1, 18.1, 18.2
Mack, Julian
McKale, Donald, 2.1, 10.1, 17.1, epi.1
McMahon, Henry, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 13.1, nts.1n, 522n
on Alexandretta scheme
on Arab independence, 7.1, 7.2
as British high commissioner for Egypt, 6.1, 9.1, 9.2
McMahon-Hussein Correspondence, 6.1, 7.1, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, nts.1n, 521n, 522n, 531n
McMeekin, Sean
MacMillan, Margaret
Madeba, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 17.1
Mahdi War, 3.1, 9.1
Mallet, Louis
Managem, 278, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, nts.1n
Manchester, University of
Mapping of Palestine, 3.1, 3.2
Marmara, Sea of
Marne River
Martyrs’ Square, Beirut
Mary, Queen
Masri, Abdul Aziz al-
Maxwell, John
Mecca, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 17.1, epi.1
Arab Revolt in, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 10.1
hajj to
as off-limits to non-Muslims, 8.1, 11.1
Turkish threat to, 8.1, 10.1, 11.1
Medina, 2.1, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 11.1
Djemal Pasha’s withdrawal order and
France on preventing capture of
as off-limits to non-Muslims
Turkish garrison in, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1, 17.1, 17.2
Mediterranean Expeditionary Force (Med-Ex), 5.1, 6.1
Mediterranean Sea, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 6.1, 10.1, 12.1, 12.2, 17.1, 17.2
Suez Canal and, 3.1, 3.2
Mesopotamia (Iraq), 2.1, 4.1, 8.1, 16.1, nts.1n
Meuse River
Mexico
Meyer, Louis
MI5
Michael (German offensive)
Middle East, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 13.1, 14.1, 15.1, 17.1
agricultural science in
British entanglements in, 7.1, 7.2
British war effort in
crumbling of the Ottoman Empire in
European territorial claims toward, 7.1, 12.1
modern, creation of, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3
oil in, 3.1, 4.1
Wilson as voice of British conscience in
Military Handbook for South Syria, The, 278–79
mimeograph machines
Minifir
Mint, The (Lawrence), epi.1
“mission creep,” 5.1, 11.1
Moab Plateau, 16.1, 17.1, 17.2
Moneim, Abdel, 18.1, 18.2
Money, Arthur
Mons, battle of
Montenegro, 2.1, 5.1
Montgelas, Gräfin
Morgenthau, Henry
Morocco, Moroccans, 8.1, 8.2, 11.1
Mors, Robert, 4.1, 4.2
Moses, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1
“Moslem-Syrian littoral,”
Mosseri, Jack
Mount Hermon
Mount of Olives, 4.1, 5.1, 11.1, 11.2
Mudowarra, 14.1, 15.1
Mudros
Murray, Sir Archibald, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 14.1, 14.2
Palestine offensives of, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 14.1, 15.1
removed from command
Muslims
Arab, 2.1, 7.1
in British Empire
in British military
control of Medina and
Crusaders and
fears of Christian intentions toward
in Jerusalem
Jerusalem as sacred to
Jews seen as inferior by
Kurdish
in Ottoman Empire, 4.1, 4.2
in Palestine, 16.1, 17.1
as pilgrims to Mecca and Medina, 5.1, 5.2, 8.1
under the rule of European colonial powers
self-rule by, n
Sunni
in Syria, 17.1, 17.2
Turkish
see also Islam
Mussolini, Benito
Mustafa Bey (town),
Naama (camel)
Nablus, 4.1, 4.2, 18.1, 18.2
expulsion of elders from, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
Nachrichtenstelle für den Orient (Intelligence Bureau for the East)
Nakhl Mubarak, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
Napoleon I, emperor of France
Napoleonic wars
Nasir, Sherif, 13.1, 18.1
Nasser, Gamal Abdel
Nassif, Suleiman Bey, 3.1, 3.2, 17.1, 17.2
Navajo Bar, Panama City
Navy, French, off Palestinian coastline
Navy, German
Nazis, epi.1, epi.2
Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon
Necho II, pharaoh of Egypt
Newcombe, Stewart Francis, 1.1, 11.1, 11.2, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, epi.1, epi.2
Alex Aaronsohn spurned by
assigned as liaison officer to Faisal, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
as head of military intelligence unit in Cairo, 4.1, 4.2, 8.1, 11.1, 15.1
Lawrence recruited for intelligence work by, 3.1, 4.1
military survey conducted by, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1
New Delhi
New Hampshire, University of
New York, N.Y., 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 6.1, 6.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 16.1, 18.1, 18.2, epi.1
New York, USS, 14.1
New York Evening Post, 217
New York Stock Exchange
New York Times, 79, 12.1, 16.1
New Zealand, territorial troops from
Nicholas II, czar of Russia
Nicolson, Ar
thur
Nile River, 3.1, 9.1, 15.1, 17.1
NILI (Nezah Israel Lo Ieshaker) spy network, 11.1, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 15.1, 16.1, 17.1, 17.2, nts.1n
see also Aaronsohn, Aaron, spy network of
Nimr, Faris, 17.1, 17.2
Normandy, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Northbrook, HMS, 13.1
Nur el Bahr, 274
Nuremberg trials
Nuri Said,
Odyssey (Homer), epi.1
oil:
growing demand for
in Middle East
see also Standard Oil Company of New York
Oklahoma:
Kiefer oilfield in, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 17.1
unruly oilmen from
Omdurman, battle of
Oppenheim, Max von, Count, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 5.1, 17.1
concubines of
Constantinople assignment of
economic ambitions of, 10.1, 13.1
“going native” by
on Hussein
Islamic jihad promoted by, 2.1, 3.1, 5.1
Jewish ancestry of
Montblanc pen named after, 2.1, 2.2
Prüfer’s dispatches to, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1
wanderings in Bedouin garb by
Organization A
Orient Express
Orkney Islands
Ormsby-Gore, William, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1, 17.1, 17.2
Oskar II, 216–17
Ottoman (Turkish) Army, 14.1, 14.2, 16.1, 17.1, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3
Amman ruse effective against
Arab officers wanting to revolt in, 6.1, 7.1
Arab regiments in, 6.1, 7.1, 17.1, nts.1n
attempt to retake Tafileh by
at Bair
friction between German units and
Fuweila and
indifference of commanders to soldiers in
limits of supplies and reinforcements for
military installations of
oil shortage of
Palestine defeat of
passive resistance of
patrols by
as stretched to breaking point
in Syria
Syrian, German command over
Syrian deserters from
total collapse of
Turkish regiments in, 6.1, 11.1
Ottoman Empire, 2.1, 3.1, 7.1, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 16.1, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3
Aaronsohn and
alliances of
apathy in general population to war by
approaches toward Suez available to
Arab revolt against
armed forces mobilized by
breakup of
Britain’s relations with, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 9.1
British negotiations with, 16.1, 17.1
Capitulations in, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1
carving up of
in Central Powers, 4.1, 15.1
Christian minority in
conservative backlash in
counterintelligence agents from, 9.1, 9.2
currency collapse of
decline of, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 6.1, 7.1, 10.1
diversity and cultural mosaic of, 4.1, 5.1, 12.1
Doris incident and, 5.1
in Eastern Front
entry into World War I by, 1.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 5.1, 6.1
ever-mutating nature of
foreign debt of
geography of, 1.1, 5.1
Germany’s relationship with, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 8.1, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 17.1, nts.1n
government corruption in
Hussein’s break with, 7.1, 8.1
imperial intentions of Triple Entente toward
Islamists vs. Turkish nationalists in
Jews in
as launching pad for German destabilization efforts
Lawrence and officials of, 2.1, 3.1
Lawrence’s background report on
Lawrence’s map of, 5.1, 7.1
Lloyd George and war effort against
mining laws of
pan-Islamic jihad promoted by, 5.1, 5.2
potential Achilles’ heel of
religious minorities in
requisitioning by, 4.1, 6.1
revelation of Sykes-Picot Agreement and
and Russia’s withdrawal from war
scorched-earth policy of
Sinai peninsula wrested from
Socony and, 3.1, 5.1, 6.1
speculation about secret war alliance of, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4
Standard Oil trucks requisitioned by
surrender of, itr.1, 18.1
Three Pashas triumvirate in, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 18.1
travel permits in, 7.1, 9.1, 11.1
U.S. break in diplomatic relations with
war planes of
in Wilson’s Fourteen Points
withdrawal from Jerusalem of
Young Turks in, see Young Turks
Zichron Yaakov residents as citizens of
Zionist hopes of acquiring Palestine from
see also Turkey
Ottoman Front, forced evacuations on
Oxford, 3.1, 4.1, 7.1, 14.1
Lawrence family in, 2.1, 11.1, 15.1, 17.1
Oxford High School for Boys, 2.1, 2.2
Oxford University
Lawrence at, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 9.1, 15.1, 17.1
pack howitzers (mountain guns)
Palestine, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 15.1, 17.1, 17.2, 18.1, 18.2, epi.1, epi.2
1914 mapping of
and Aaronsohn on need for Jews to break from Ottoman Empire
Aaronsohn’s spy ring in, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 13.1, 14.1, 15.1, 17.1, nts.1n
Allenby’s offensive on, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 16.2, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4, 17.5, 17.6, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 18.4, 18.5
Arab-Jewish tensions in, 6.1, epi.1
Arab Revolt and
Arabs in, 4.1, 12.1, 14.1, 14.2, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4, 17.5, 17.6, 17.7, epi.1, epi.2, epi.3
archaeological expedition as cover for British interests in
Balfour Declaration and
Britain’s interest in
British in, 16.1, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3
Palestine
British mandate in, epi.1, epi.2, epi.3, epi.4
as British protectorate, 12.1, 12.2, 16.1, 16.2, 17.1, 17.2, epi.1
British support for Jewish enclave in, 9.1, 11.1
Christians in, 14.1, 14.2, 17.1, 17.2
coast of, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2, 15.1, 18.1, 18.2
European imperial ambitions toward
expanded boundaries for
expulsion of Jews from, 4.1, 6.1, nts.1n
fellaheen system in, 4.1, 7.1, 14.1
first wave of Jewish emigration to, 4.1, 4.2
flora and geology of
French in, 7.1, 17.1
German and Turkish troops in, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 18.4
Herzl’s attempted purchase of
international administration proposed for, 12.1, 16.1, 16.2
Jewish emigration to, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 16.1, 17.1, epi.1, epi.2
Jewish homeland in, itr.1, 12.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4, 17.5, 17.6, 18.1, epi.1
Jewish paramilitary forces in, 4.1, 6.1
Kitchener’s mapping of
locust plague in, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2
modern-day, n
Murray’s offensives on, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 14.1, 15.1
NILI relief funds in, 14.1, 14.2
non-Jewish population of, 3.1, 16.1
oil concession holders in
oil sought by Socony in, 1.1, 3.1
as part of Ottoman Syria, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
populations of
poverty in
second wave of Jew
ish emigration to, 4.1, 4.2
Socony land grab in, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 10.1, 11.1, 17.1, 17.2, epi.1
Socony’s road building in, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 13.1, 15.1
Turkish supply line into
Turkish troops in, 7.1, 11.1, 14.1, 14.2, 17.1
unruly oil workers in
U.S. and
wartime
Yale barred from battlefront in
Yale in, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 14.1, 17.1
Zionism in, 17.1, 17.2, epi.1; see also Zionism, Zionists
Palestine Exploration Fund, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Palestine Land Development Company
Panama Canal, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 17.1
Pan-Arab military league
pan-Islam, pan-Islamic jihad, 2.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 8.1, 10.1, 13.1
Paris, 4.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 16.1, 18.1
Paris 1919 (MacMillan), epi.1
Paris Peace Conference, 18.1, epi.1, epi.2, epi.3, nts.1n
private agreements in advance of
Parker, Alfred, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
Passchendaele, battle of
Passover, 3.1, 12.1, 12.2
Persia
Persian Gulf, oil in
Petah Tikvah
Petraeus, David
Petrie, Flinders
Piave River
pigeons, carrier
Place des Canons, Beirut
Plain of Sharon
Playfair Cipher
poison gas
Poland, 16.1, epi.1
Port Said, 6.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 12.1, 14.1, 14.2
Port Suez, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 11.1, 12.1, 14.1, 14.2
Portugal
post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Provisional Law of Relocation
Prüfer, Agnes
Prüfer, Carl, 2.1, 2.2
Prüfer, Curt, itr.1, 1.1, 2.1, 10.1
Abbas Hilmi and, 2.1, 15.1, 17.1, 17.2, 18.1, 18.2, epi.1
on Abd el Kader
appearance and personality of
as Cairo embassy dragoman, 2.1, 3.1
childhood of
in Constantinople for Oppenheim
deepening anti-Semitism of
Djemal Pasha and, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2
education of
Enver Pasha psychoanalyzed by
and failed appointment as director of Cairo khedival library, 3.1, 5.1
in German Flying Corps
as head of German intelligence bureau in Constantinople, 10.1, 13.1
ill health of, 10.1, 13.1
Lawrence’s reverse trajectory with
marriages of, 1.1, 2.1, epi.1
military training lacked by
Minna Weizmann’s relationship with, 6.1, epi.1
Mors affair and
in Nazi regime
Near East as fascination of
as notorious seducer of women
Oppenheim and, 2.1, 10.1
as Oriental language teacher, 3.1, 4.1
as Oriental secretary to Cairo German embassy, 1.1, 3.1
resignation from foreign ministry by
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