407 “12,000 sabres”: Wavell, Palestine Campaigns, 195.
407 “about twelve hundred strong”: Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia, 268.
407 “solo effort”: Ibid., 269.
408 “crammed to the gunwale”: Ibid.
408 “the cover of the last ridge”: Ibid., 270.
408 “a fastidious artist”: Wavell, Palestine Campaigns, 203.
408 “first have to tear down”: Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia, 270.
409 “rushed down to find Peake’s”: Ibid.
410 “the telegraph, thus severing”: Ibid., 271.
410 “a lurid blaze”: Ibid., 273.
411 “7,000 yards”: Wavell, Palestine Campaigns, 207.
411 “had broken in hopeless”: Ibid.
412 “clerks, orderlies etc.”: von Sanders, Five Years in Turkey, 282.
412 “Nothing is known of the climate”: Ibid., 282, fn 184.
412 “Early on September 21st”: Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia, 275.
413 “lit up by the green shower”: Ibid., 278.
414 “found the great man at work”: Lawrence, SP, 753.
414 Allenby personally briefed Lawrence: Wavell, Palestine Campaigns, 216-217.
415 “noting the two charred German bodies”: Lawrence, SP, 758.
415 “packed into the green Vauxhall”: Ibid.
415 “ ‘Indeed and at last’”: Ibid., 759.
416 “still regarded him”: Young, The Independent Arab, 243.
417 “Ghazale by storm”: Lawrence, SP, 771.
418 “When we got within sight”: Ibid., 775-780.
426 “I asked Lawrence to remove”: Barrow, The Fire of Life, 211.
427 “At least my mind”: Lawrence, SP, 784.
427 “tapped The Seven Pillars”: Barrow, The Fire of Life, 215.
428 “I said, ‘This morning’ ”: Lawrence, SP, 785.
428 “Auda was waiting for them”: Ibid., 788.
430 “A movement like a breath”: Ibid., 793.
431 “jumped in to drive them apart”: Ibid., 794.
431 “to wash out the insult”: Ibid., 795.
432 “could not recognize”: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 565.
433 “I had been born free”: Lawrence, SP, 802.
433 “burst open shops”: Ibid., 803.
434 “squalid with rags”: Ibid., 805.
434 “There might be thirty there”: Ibid.
435 “asked [him] shortly”: Ibid., 809.
435 “and stalked off”: Ibid.
436 “triumphal entry”: Young, The Independent Arab, 255.
436 “a French Liaison Officer”: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 567-568.
437 “declined to have a French Liaison Officer”: Ibid., 567.
437 “turned to Lawrence”: Ibid.
437 “he would not work”: Chauvel, quoted in Knightley and Simpson, Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia, 96.
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439 “that younger successor”: J. T. Shotwell, At the Paris Peace Conference (New York: 1937), 121. Note that Shotwell, a member of the American delegation, was off by two years—Lawrence was in fact thirty at this time, though he did look far younger.
440 “to arrange for an audience”: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 572.
440 “a man dropping a heavy load”: Ibid.
440 profoundly sad: Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 256.
442 “a huge fellow”: Aldington, Lawrence of Arabia, 250-251.
443 “on or about October 24th”: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 573.
444 “under the control” of Feisal: Ibid., 575.
445 “chafed at”: Graves and Liddell Hart (eds.), T. E. Lawrence to His Biographers, 108.
448 “He explained personally”: Ibid., 106.
448 “if a man has to serve”: Ibid., 107.
450 “rather taken aback”: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 578.
450 “he had made certain promises”: Graves and Liddell Hart (eds.), T. E. Lawrence to His Biographers, 107.
451 “if it is behind a British”: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 579.
452 “He wore his Arab robes”: Winston Churchill, Great Contemporaries, 157.
452 “conversations about the Arabs”: Ibid., 581. 455 “Without in the least wishing”: Ibid., 585.
455 “historic duty towards the peoples of Syria”: Ibid., 584.
456 “You do not want to divide the loot”: MacMillan, Paris 1919, 386.
456 “it was essential that Feisal”: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 586.
458 “evilgenius”: MacMillan, Paris 1919, 389.
458 “You must be quite candid”: Aldington, Lawrence of Arabia, 256.
460 As the two leaders stood together: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 589; Rose, Chaim Weizmann, 199.
461 Curzon spoke scathingly: Ibid., 590.
461 “incessant friction”: Ibid., 591.
462 “but we must not put the knife”: Ibid.
462 “a member of Feisal’s staff”: Ibid., 592.
462 Thus Lawrence was placed: Ibid., 410.
462 “We lived many lives”: Lawrence, SP, 6
463 “like a choir boy”: General Édouard Brémond, Le Hedjaz dans la Guerre Mondiale, 317, quoted in Aldington, Lawrence of Arabia, 257.
463 “civic functions”: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 593.
467 “If the Arabs are established”: Weizmann, Letters and Papers, Vol. IX, Series A, reproduced images between 86 and 87.
467 “ ‘He’ll say that he doesn’t’”: Quoted in Knightley and Simpson, Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia, 120.
468 “the Great Powers”: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 597.
470 “red weals on his ribs”: Meinertzhagen, Middle East Diary, 52.
470 “a silent, masterful man”: Lawrence, SP, 429.
470 “his mind”: Meinertzhagen, Middle East Diary, 39.
471 “There is nothing funny about toilet paper”: Ibid., 40.
471 “the most picturesque”: Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 264.
471 “He has been described”: Shotwell, At the Paris Peace Conference, 231.
473 “in flowing robes of dazzling white”: Lloyd George, Memoirs of the Peace Conference, Vol. II, 673.
473 with a curved gold dagger: MacMillan, Paris 1919, 291.
474 “President Wilson then made a suggestion”: Toynbee, quoted in Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 267.
474 “When he came to the end”: Toynbee, Acquaintances, 182-183.
475 “What did you get that fellow”: MacMillan, Paris 1919, 391.
475 “Poor Lawrence”: Alexander Mihailovitj, Nar Jag Var Storfuste Av Ryssland, 314-315, trans. Gunilla Jainchill, quoted in Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 268.
475 “the lines of resentment”: Nicolson, Peace Making, 142.
476 Wilson also turned down all suggestions: Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 269.
477 “control of personal feelings”: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 610.
477 fifty big Handley-Page bombers: Ibid., 611.
478 “a second Gordon”: Ibid., 608.
479 proclaimed him “Lawrence of Arabia”: Ibid., 622.
480 The show included not only the film: Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 274-275.
481 “summoned Mr. and Mrs. Thomas”: London Times, November 20, 1919.
483 “Wouldn’t it be fun”: Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 271.
485 “the antiquities and ethnology”: Ibid., 277.
485 “our troubles with the French”: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 617.
485 “that Lawrence will never be employed”: Ibid.
485 “Colonel Lawrence has no Military status”: NA General Staff WO M.I.2. B, July 21, 1919.
485 “I have tried again and again”: NA LA 1107, December 5, 1919.
487 “use his influence with Feisal”: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 621.
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490 “it might
trouble him”: Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 481.
491 a terrible “row”: Ibid.
491 “bear a brave face”: Lawrence, Home Letters, 304.
491 At times he broke out of his depression: Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 287.
493 “Bow Street was jammed”: Lowell Thomas to “Ronnie,” March 29, 1956, Lowell Thomas Papers, Marist College.
493 “he would blush crimson”: Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 276.
493 “Thomas Lawrence, the archaeologist”: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 624.
494 “In the history of the world”: Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 287.
495 “Colonel C. E. Florence”: Aldington, Lawrence of Arabia, 352.
496 The truth is quite simple: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 627.
496 an “official” one: Ibid.
497 “95% of the book in thirty days”: Ibid., 628.
497 At one point he wrote 30,000 words: Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 84.
499 “flying suit”: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 629.
500 “the book had now assumed”: Ibid., 630.
501 “boy-scout”: Ibid., 635.
501 Among the dozen or so alternative ideas: Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 284.
502 His scholarship from All Souls: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 637.
502 Thomas Lawrence had left: Ibid., 637-638.
503 Perhaps because he had overestimated: Ibid., 637.
503 Neither Will nor Frank had lived: Ibid., 637-638.
504 make him look “silly”: Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 65.
504 This did not prevent him from buying rare: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 641.
505 “too sparsely peopled”: Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 291.
505 “learning opportunities”: Ibid., 634.
506 “one never knows how many”: Storrs, Orientations, 505.
506 Far from being extreme: Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 293.
507 Some idea of the aura of celebrity: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 633.
509 “to relieve Curzon”: Graves and Liddell Hart (eds.), T. E. Lawrence to His Biographers, 354.
510 he had “a virgin mind”: Young, The Independent Arab, 324.
511 Churchill’s omnipresent private secretary: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 643.
511 Though it was not appreciated at the time: Ibid., 644.
513 “little Lawrence”: Meinertzhagen, Middle East Diary, 55-56.
513 Lawrence became a civil servant: Graves and Liddell Hart (eds.), T. E. Lawrence to His Biographers, 143.
513 “Talk of leaving things”: Ibid.
514 “You must take risks”: Ibid.
515 “Lawrence can bear comparison”: Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia, 384.
515 “Our most trusted”: Graves and Liddell Hart (eds.), T. E. Lawrence to His Biographers, 131.
517 The western border with Syria: Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace, 503.
518 “with 30 officers and 200 Bedouins”: Ibid., 504.
518 “living with Abdulla”: Lawrence, Letters, Brown (ed.), 197.
518 “suspicious of his influence”: Abdullah, Memoirs, 170.
518 “He was certainly a strange character”: Ibid., 170-171.
518 “Lawrence was the man”: Thompson, Assignment Churchill, 30.
519 “I know Abdullah”: Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace, 510.
519 “shrewd and indolent”: Ibid.
520 “The atmosphere in the Colonial Office”: Meinertzhagen, Middle East Diary, 99-100.
520 “consternation, despondency”: Ingrams, Palestine Papers, 105.
521 “a typewritten receipt”: Storrs, Orientations, 391.
521 “E.&O. E.”: Samuel, Memoirs, 154.
522 “Their cries became a roar”: Mack A Prince of Our Disorder, 304.
523 “the Greek epitaph of despair”: Storrs, Orientations, 527.
523 With a typically British manifestation: Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace, 508.
523 “against his own people”: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 650.
524 “I take most of the credit”: Ibid., 651.
525 “quit of the war-time Eastern adventure”: Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 314, attributed to Lawrence’s notes in SP, 276.
525 “to negotiate and conclude”: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 655.
527 Reading Lawrence’s report: Ibid., 660.
528 Lawrence took a steamer: Ibid.
529 “for in Trans-Jordan”: Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 308.
529 “I leave all business to Lawrence”: Ibid., 309, quoting from Philby’s Forty Years in the Wilderness, 108.
530 This refers to the fact that his father’s younger sister: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 944.
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539 He would laboriously correct the copies: Jeremy Wilson, “Seven Pillars of Wisdom: Triumph and Tragedy,” T. E. Lawrence studies Web site, telawrencestudies.org.
540 “to leave the payroll of the Colonial Office”: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 674.
541 “God this is awful”: Lawrence, The Mint, 19.
542 “With regard to your personal point”: Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 46.
542 “considerably embarrassed”: Ibid., 48.
542 “secrecy and subterfuge”: Swann, quoted ibid.
542 “disliked the whole business”: Ibid.
542 “One would think from [his] letters”: Lawrence, Letters, Garnett (ed.), 363.
546 Johns resourcefully found a civilian doctor: Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 52.
547 “with the memory of a cold”: Ibid., 53.
547 “As they swiftly stripped for sleep”: Lawrence, The Mint, 25.
550 “a strict disciplinarian”: Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 57.
551 “I must hit him, I must”: Ibid., 58.
551 “Let the old cunt rot”: Ibid., 76-77.
551 “and see him privately”: Ibid., 65.
552 Lawrence had been writing: Ibid.
552 “consistently dirty”: Breese, quoted ibid., 66.
552 “that he had always felt”: Ibid.
552 “I think I had a mental breakdown”: Ibid., 62.
553 “There are twenty-thousand airmen”: Lawrence, The Mint, 98-99.
554 “mummified thing”: Ibid., 184-185.
555 “I’d like you to read”: Lawrence, Letters, Garnett (ed.), 362.
556 “It seems to me that an attempted work”: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 686. See 1126, n 21, as V. W. Richards to T. E. Lawrence, September 24, 1922, Bodleian Library transcript.
557 “Of the present Ministry”: Quoted ibid., 688.
560 “was appointed to the Adjutant’s office”: Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 67-68.
560 “why A/c2 Ross”: Ibid., 69.
560 “was not at all sympathetic”: Ibid.
560 “frankly perplexed”: Ibid.
560 “His blue eyes were set”: Ibid.
561 “‘Yes, Lawrence of Arabia!’”: Ibid.
562 “I am afraid you are rather making a labour of it”: Lawrence, Letters, Brown (ed.), 226.
562 “road tubthumping round”: Holroyd, Bernard Shaw, Vol. III, 85.
562 “she began ecstatically reading”: Ibid.
564 “This letter has got to be”: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 690.
564 “Your offer is a generous and kind one”: Ibid., 691.
567 “a brace of thoroughgoing modern ruffians”: Ibid., 695.
567 “Nelson, slightly cracked”: Ibid.
567 “You are evidently a very dangerous man”: Holroyd, Bernard Shaw, Vol. III, 85.
568 a “virtuoso” essay: Ibid.
569 “unreasonably”: Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 74.
569 “previous service”: Ibid.
569 “ ‘I am convinced that some quality’“: Findlay, “The Amazing AC 2.”
570 “an accomplished poseur”: Holroyd, Bernard Shaw, Vol. III, 88.
570 ”‘There is
no end to your Protean tricks’“: Ibid., 86.
572 “The cat being now let out of the bag”: Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 697.
573 “How is it conceivable, imaginable”: Ibid., 699-700.
573 “get used to the limelight”: Ibid., 700.
574 “that his position in the RAF”: Ibid., 701.
575 “the position, which had been extremely”: Ibid., 706.
575 “well-known for its large pond and bird life”: Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 76.
575 “played up at Farnborough”: Ibid., 77.
576 “how his men were to distinguish”: Lawrence, SP, 574.
577 “sounded out”: Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 80.
577 “sees no very great difficulty about it”: Ibid.
577 “A good idea!”: Ibid., 80-81.
578 “To Pte. Shaw from Public Shaw”: Holroyd, Bernard Shaw, Vol. III, 88.
578 “and was posted to A Company”: Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 81.
579 “queerly homesick”: Ibid., 86.
579 “prevailing animality of spirit”: Ibid., 85.
580 “speak and act with complete assurance”: Ibid., 82.
580 “It’s a horrible life”: Ibid., 83.
580 “this cat-calling carnality seething”: Ibid., 84.
582 “inarticulate, excessively uncomfortable”: Shaw letter, July 19, 1924; or Knightley and Simpson, Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia, 190.
582 “Lawrence did nothing without a purpose”: Knightley and Simpson, Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia, 168.
583 “His disloyalty reminded”: Jerusalem Post, 1961, quoted in Graves, Lawrence and the Arabs, 230.
586 “called him a bastard”: Knightley and Simpson, Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia, 174.
586 “turned his back on God”: Ibid.
587 “an unsigned, typed letter”: Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 88-89.
588 “to report in writing”: Ibid., 89.
588 “Circassian riding whip”: Lawrence, SP, 498.
589 “it was rather his pied-à-terre”: Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 93.
590 “Hardy is so pale”: Lawrence, Letters, Garnett (ed.), 429-431.
590 “craving for real risk”: Mack, Prince, 343.
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.
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