Thomas Edward Lawrence was born in Wales in 1888. Shaw, Alias Airman Ross, but known to the world is Lawrence of Arabia. LAWRENCE SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM 1966 DOUBLEDAY & CO NY DUST JACKET First Edition Thus First Printing.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom is a complex work of high literary aspiration that some have said stands in the tradition of Melville and Dostoevsky, and alongside the writings o Yeats, Eliot and Joyce. Seven Pillars of Wisdom, written between 19, tells of the vastly different campaign against the Turks in the Middle East - one which encompasses gross acts of cruelty and revenge and ends in a welter of stink and corpses in the disgusting hospital in Damascus. Lawrence's younger brothers, Frank and Will, had been killed on the Western Front in 1915. It is one of the major statements about the fighting experience of the First World War'. This book has been called a novel traveling under the cover of autobiography, capturing Lawrence's highly personal and exciting version of the historical events described in the book. The extraordinary breadth and variety of his activities and associations, and his ability to describe them vividly in writing, earned him international fame as Lawrence of Arabia, a title popularized by the 1962 film based on his life.

Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, while serving with rebel forces during the Arabian Revolt against the Ottoman Turks. This is the autobiographical account of the experiences of British soldier T. The print is small font reducing the size of the book. This is a used copy of a December 2014 Print On Demand (POD) edition in As New condition.

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