Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Other)

from DinadansFriend

An in-depth study of Lawrence the spy, this book also deals with five other movers in the Imperial Conflict between Britain and the Ottomans. William Yale, the American oil scout, Curt Prufer, the German man on the spot, Ahmed Djemal Pasha governor of Syria, Aaron Aarohnson the Zionist activist a...

from dbsovereign

Dense, fascinating history of how four men influenced how things have fallen out in the Middle East today. Lawrence was a man torn by a need to help the Arabs against the interests of his own country's. Full of insight into the Middle East today and a sad history of a war that was both cruel and ...

from rivkat

Contrasting T.E. Lawrence's story to those of three other young men-a Zionist from the Ottoman Empire, a Yale man who worked for Standard Oil and then for the US government, and a German official/spy-Anderson suggests that the Middle East in the time of WWI was a place where many stranger-than-fi...

from Richard7920

Why is the Middle East such a mess today? How accurate was the revered epic movie, Lawrence of Arabia? These are just a couple of the questions explored in Scott Anderson's Lawrence in Arabia. His story offers some answers and is focused on the conflict between Allies and Ottoman Empire in the Mi...

from nbmars

Thousands of books have been written about World War I, and I have read about 40 of them. Thus, I find it interesting to come across an analysis or way of interpreting established facts that is unfamiliar to me. [There is no way I can judge whether such an analysis or interpretation is in fact ne...