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This book is a thrilling and revelatory narrative of one of the most epic and consequential episodes in twentieth-century history -- the Arab Revolt and the secret "great game" to control the Middle East. The Arab Revolt against the Turks in World War I was, in the words of T.E. Lawrence, "a sideshow of a sideshow." Amidst the slaughter in European trenches, the Western combatants paid scant attention to the Middle Eastern theater. As a result, the conflict was shaped to a remarkable degree by a small handful of adventurers and low-level officers far removed from the corridors of power. Curt Prüfer was an effete academic attached to the German embassy in Cairo, whose clandestine role was to foment Islamic jihad against British rule. Aaron Aaronsohn was a renowned agronomist and committed Zionist who gained the trust of the Ottoman governor of Syria. William Yale was a fallen scion of the American aristocracy, who traveled the Ottoman Empire on behalf of Standard Oil, dissembling to the Turks in order to gain valuable oil concessions. At the center of it all was Lawrence. In early 1914 he was an archaeologist excavating ruins in the sands of Syria; by 1917 he was the most romantic figure of World War I, battling both the enemy and his own government to bring about the vision he had for the Arab people. The intertwined paths of these four men -- the schemes they put in place, the battles they fought, the betrayals they endured and committed -- mirror the grandeur, intrigue, and tragedy of the war in the desert. Prüfer became Germany's great spymaster in the Middle East. Aaronsohn constructed an elaborate Jewish spy ring in Palestine, only to have the anti-Semitic and bureaucratically inept British first ignore and then misuse his organization, at tragic personal cost. Yale would become the only American intelligence agent in the entire Middle East -- while still secretly on the payroll of Standard Oil. And the enigmatic Lawrence rode into legend at the head of an Arab army, even as he waged a secret war against his own nation's imperial ambitions. Based on years of intensive primary document research, Lawrence in Arabia definitively overturns received wisdom on how the modern Middle East was formed. - Jacket flap.
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World War (1914-1918) fast (OCoLC)fst01180746, World War, 1914-1918, Weltkrieg, Great Britain. Army, Campaigns, Great Britain, Arabieren, Military campaigns, Eerste Wereldoorlog, Soldiers, Opstanden, Biography, History, nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction=2013-08-25, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Lawrence, t. e. (thomas edward), 1888-1935, World war, 1914-1918, campaigns, World war, 1914-1918, turkey, Great britain, army, Middle east, history, 20th century, Middle east, history, militaryShowing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Jun 03, 2014, Anchor
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Lawrence in Arabia: war, deceit, imperial folly and the making of the modern Middle East
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