Lawrence of Arabia on War: The Campaign in the Desert 1916-18

WINNER OF THE BRITISH ARMY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021'A riveting account of T.

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Lawrence’ s battles on and off the battlefield… Using scrupulous research and succinct prose, Johnson provides a gold mine of stratagems… a must-read for military leaders to come!'Arnel P.

David, Lt Col, US Army Special Advisor to the Chief of the General Staff (UK)'An innovative study of Lawrence that carefully and intelligently examines his campaigns and thinking on irregular warfare, and in doing so produces an accessible and intellectually stimulating work of military history.'James Kitchen, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst'This is a major contribution to the literature on the Middle East in the Great War, and the history of military ideas - and it is highly relevant to contemporary armed force.'Professor Gary Sheffield, University of WolverhamptonLawrence of Arabia is one of the most iconic figures of the First World War, seen by many as a heroic and romantic guerrilla leader in a period of savage and deeply impersonal industrial warfare.

While Lawrence himself has been the subject of many biographies, and an award-winning film, the context of his war in the desert, and his ideas on war itself, are less well known.