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  182 When Lawrence went up to Jesus College: Knightley and Simpson, Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia, 21.

  182 “a cynical and highly-educated baboon”: Ibid., 20.

  182 “a boy of extraordinary”: Ibid., 30.

  183 “the only man I had never”: Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 369.

  184 “a dreary and desolate waste”: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 71.

  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 fre
e 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 Awakening, 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 purest classical tradition”: Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia, 382, 384.

  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.

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82 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.