590 “swerved at 60 M.P.H.”: Lawrence, Letters, Garnett (ed.), 419-420.
591 “Lawrence is not normal in many ways”: Lawrence, Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw, 1922-1926, Vol. I, 45.
591 “Damn you, how long do you”: Arnold Lawrence (ed.), Letters to T.E. Lawrence, 154.
591 “I can’t cheer you up”: Ibid., 64.
594 “A black core”: Lawrence, Letters, Brown (ed.), 233.
594 He persisted with it, however: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 719-720.
595 “he looked very much like Colonel Lawrence”: Arnold Lawrence (ed.), T. E. Lawrence by His Friends, 244.
595 “I have written another magnificent play”: Lawrence, Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw, 1922-1926, Vol. I, 51.
596 “upon the throne of a nation-state”: Holroyd, Bernard Shaw, Vol. III, 86.
596 “With their missionary zeal”: Ibid., 88.
596 “There isn’t as much strength in Joan”: Lawrence, Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw, 1922-1926, Vol. I, 86.
597 “I’d like to very much”: Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 97.
598 “all sorts of minor ailments”: Ibid., 102.
598 “I’d rather the few copies”: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 727.
599 “The business will be done”: Ibid., 731.
599 “Confound you”: Lawrence, Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw, 1922-1926, Vol. I, 103-105.
601 “I’m always afraid of being hurt”: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 739.
602 “I don’t know by what right”: Lawrence, Letters, Garnett (ed.), 214.
602 “fits of extreme depression”: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 754.
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605 “A Flight-Sergeant came along”: Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 109.
606 “dragged in to the Headquarters Adjutant”: Lawrence, Letters, Garnett (ed.), 481.
608 “He was hero-worshipped”: Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 117.
608 “to dive into the elastic water”: Ibid., 113.
610 “found Feisal lively”: Ibid., 116.
610 “So long as there is breath”: Lawrence, Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw, 1922-1926, Vol. I, 150.
611 “This bundle of proofs”: Ibid., 137.
611 “Something extraordinary always happens”: Ibid., 35.
612 The gift basket from Gunter’s: Ibid., 150-6.
613 “No thanks: no money”: Lawrence, Home Letters, 360.
615 “It is not the right blue”: Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 127.
616 “with his right arm dangling”: Ibid., 121.
617 “It is good of you”: Trenchard Papers, November 20, 1926, quoted ibid., 124.
618 This was an infringement of the U.K. Copyright Act: Ibid., 126.
618 “I have been surprised”: Ibid., 132.
620 “the breath away by its sheer brutality”: Ibid., 133.
620 “Hullo here’s the Orderly”: Lawrence, Letters, Garnett (ed.), 502-503.
620 “Wave upon wave”: Ibid., 502-503.
622 “I do wish, hourly”: Ibid., 506.
623 Not only Bernard Shaw believed: Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 135.
624 At Cranwell, the telegraph boy: Ibid., 128.
624 “When I opened your letter”: Ibid., 138.
625 “The fellow you need to influence”: Lawrence, Letters, Garnett (ed.), 599.
626 “Gertrude was not a good judge”: Ibid., 543.
628 “was sentfor”: Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 143.
629 “his head was everything”: Ibid., 149.
629 “suddenly and quietly”: Ibid., 150.
630 “William Blake, Thomas Malory”: Ibid., 152.
630 “which he kept in a small tin box”: Ibid.
630 “I think probably there will be”: Ibid.
630 “instead of visiting Karachi”: Ibid., 154.
631 “A conversation between”: Ibid., 163.
631 “We are only 26”: Ibid.
633 “I think that the spectacle”: Ibid., 169.
633 “Very bookish, this house-bred”: Lawrence, Odyssey of Homer, end of “Note.”
634 A genuine holy man: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 845.
634 On January 3,1929: Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 178.
634 “ineradicable suspicion”: Ibid.
636 ”great mystery”: Ibid., 209.
638 “No, my name is Mr. Smith”: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 846.
639 No sooner had Trenchard: Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 183.
640 “the marriage tangles”: Ibid., 184.
640 “Why must you be”: Ibid., 185.
640 “I am being hunted”: Lawrence, Letters, Garnett (ed.), 641.
641 “Cattewaterproves to be”: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 850.
641 “A man who can run away”: Lawrence, Letters, Garnett (ed.), 648.
642 “I’m very weary of being stared at”: Lawrence, Selected Letters, Garnett (ed.), 307.
643 Lawrence heard Bernard Shaw read: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 854.
644 “A pea-hen voice”: Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 190.
644 “invited herself”: Ibid.
644 “I do not know when”: Lawrence, Letters, Garnett (ed.), 665.
645 “Thus he was able to have a deep”: Clare Sydney Smith, The Golden Reign, 37.
647 Lawrence entered the picture: Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 194.
647 Unfortunately, Shaw was too busy: Ibid., 195.
648 “As regards including Lawrence”: Ibid., 268.
648 “telling me off as usual”: Ibid., 197.
650 “to stop leading from the ranks”: Ibid., 199.
651 “elevenses”: Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 205.
652 “You are a simple aircraftman”: Arnold Lawrence (ed.), Letters to T. E. Lawrence, 180.
653 “a marine expert”: Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 209.
653 “every sentence in it”: Ibid., 210.
654 “read it at Umtaiye”: Knightley and Simpson, Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia, 260.
655 “As I see it”: Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 212.
655 “and he was a wash-out”: Lawrence, Selected Letters, Garnett (ed.), 324.
656 “Dear 338171”: Ibid., 473.
658 Lawrence “is wearing a uniform”: Emma Smith, The Great Western Beach, 244.
659 “the best motorcycle out”: West, David Reese among Others, 193.
659 “Ah, yes—that”: Ibid., 202.
660 “The discharge of this airman”: Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 218.
660 looking after the interests of the Air Ministry: Ibid., 220.
660 “Lawrence of Arabia has decided to stay”: Ibid.
661 “agreed with Lawrence’s view”: Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 519-520.
661 “surely I am not in clear-shining Ithaca”: Lawrence, Odyssey of Homer, 190-191.
662 Jeremy Wilson notes that he took: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 892.
666 “It’ll end in tragedy”: Graves and Liddell Hart, T. E. Lawrence to His Biographers, 140.
666 “the rhetoric of freedom”: Ibid., 186-187.
667 The British Fascists: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 916-917.
667 “In March 1935 the RAF”: Lawrence, Letters, Brown (ed.), 528.
668 “I lunched with Alexander Korda”: Ibid., 549.
669 “Korda is like an oil-company”: Ibid., 534.
669 Lawrence enjoyed Bridlington: Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 228.
670 “ ‘Oh, I am so sorry’”: Ibid., 230-231.
670 “When I want the advice”: Ibid., 232.
671 “armament school”: Ibid., 238.
671 “The conquest of the last element”: Lawrence, Letters, Garnett (ed.), 368.
672 “Aircraftman Shaw”: Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 241.
672 “How I wish he hadn’t”: Ibid., 234.
673 Horrified—he needed: Wilson, Lawrence of Ara
bia, 927.
674 “All here is very quiet”: Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 245.
674 “I believe when the Government”: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 934.
674 “Wild mares would not take me”: Ibid.
675 “At present I am sitting”: Lawrence, Letters, Brown (ed.), 541.
676 Having completed his errands: Knightley and Simpson, Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia, 270.
678 Lawrence lay unconscious: Ibid., 272-273.
680 “Istood beside him lying”: Storrs, Orientations, 530-531.
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684 “an Austrian-born religious artist”: Brown, Lawrence of Arabia, 196-197.
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Index
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Aaronsohn, Aaron, 328–29
Aaronsohn, Sarah, 498
Aba el Naam, railway station at, 77–78
Aba’l Issan (Abu el Lissal), 95–96, 98, 101, 402, 4
04
Abd el Aziz, 419
Abd el Kader el Abdo (hero), 43, 307, 327–28
Abd el Kader el Abdo, emir (grandson), 329–35
Auda’s warning about, 332
at Damascus, 430, 431–32, 433
and Deraa incident, 342, 343, 400
desertion at Yarmuk, 335, 400, 430
at Ezraa, 417
journey to Azrak, 327, 329–30, 331, 334
Lawrence betrayed to Turks by, 335, 342, 343, 400, 430
volatility of, 328, 329, 333, 431–32
Abdul Hamid II, sultan, 259
Abdul Kerim, 172
Abdulla (Mesopotamian soldier), 370, 371
Abdulla, emir (son of Hussein), 140
assassination of, 14, 16, 518
as first king of Jordan, 14, 16, 80, 277n, 405, 444, 511, 515, 518, 519, 520, 523, 524, 528–29
in Jidda, 14–16
leadership qualities of, 15–16, 80, 483, 532
memoirs of, 16
and military strategy, 27, 29, 35, 62–63, 70, 71, 76, 80, 266, 298
and outbreak of Arab Revolt, 291–92
and plans for Arab Revolt, 10, 40, 259–61
Saudi defeat of, 483–84
at Wadi Ais, 60, 71, 73, 74, 76
Abdulla el Feir, sharif, 313, 374
Abdulla el Nahabi, 367
Abdullah (son of Obeid), 25
Abdulla II, king of Jordan, 529
Abu el Lissal, 95–96, 98, 101, 402, 404
Abu Tayi tribe, 360
Abyssinia, military strategy between wars, 29
Aden, British port of, 527
Aéro-Club de France, 642
Afghanistan:
Amanullah as king of, 632, 634, 639
British wars fought in, 632
Lawrence’s warning about, 254, 626
modern-day wars in, 30
newspaper rumors about, 634–35
and RAF Fort Miranshah, Waziristan, 631–34
Russian ambitions toward, 12
tribal unrest in, 632, 635, 639
African Queen, The (film), 92
Ageyl tribesmen, 71–72, 95
Ahmed Jemal Pasha, 344
as al-SaÃah (the butcher), 34, 430
amnesty sought by, 360–61, 398–99
Feisal’s dealings with, 266, 360–61, 400
and military strategy, 70, 266
as Turkish ruler, 34–35, 285n
Aid, Harithi sharif, 312–13, 314
Air Ministry, Marine Equipment Branch, 653, 659–60
Aldington, Richard, Lawrence of Arabia, 118, 687–90, 694, 696
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