![]() Lawrence helps the Arab chiefs create and channel a painful, violent, and masochistic campaign of guerrilla warfare. To rally the disparate Arab tribes, he preaches a message of absolute liberation and glory, wherein the Arabs might reestablish their dominance in the Middle East, and expunge the light of foreign influence. He then rides into the desert, ostensibly under British direction, to encourage the Arabs to aggressively fight the Turks, and create a diversion from the main efforts of the British regular army. Lawrence, a young archaeologist familiar with Arab-Islamic culture, quietly enters the British army at the outbreak of the First World War. He opens his tale with a clear understanding of context, and a sly smile as to the uncanny nature of the story about to unfold. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a memoir of the 1916-1918 Arab Revolt that took place during the First World War. So they allowed it to begin." And so also begins T. ![]() Their knowledge of the nature and power and country of the Arabic-speaking peoples made them think that the issue of such a rebellion would be happy: and indicated its character and method. believed that a rebellion of Arabs against Turks would enable England, while fighting Germany, simultaneously to defeat Turkey. ![]() ![]() Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Doubleday, 1938. ![]()
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