01712cam a2200373 i 4500 424335100 TxAuBib 20131007120000.0 130927s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2012049719 9780385532921 038553292X 9780307476418 0307476413 (OCoLC)825733337 DLC eng DLC rda TxAuBib rda Anderson, Scott, 1959- Lawrence in Arabia : War, deceit, imperial folly and the making of the modern Middle East / Scott Anderson. First edition. New York : Doubleday, [2013] xii, 577 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 543-552) and index. Based on four years of intensive primary document research, "Lawrence in Arabia" definitively overturns received wisdom on how the modern Middle East was formed. Sweeping in its action, keen in its portraiture, acid in its condemnation of the destruction wrought by European colonial plots, this is a book that brilliantly captures the way in which the folly of the past creates the anguish of the present. 20131007. Lawrence, T. E Thomas Edward 1888-1935. Great Britain Army Biography. World War, 1914-1918 Campaigns Middle East. World War, 1914-1918 Campaigns Turkey. Soldiers Great Britain Biography. Middle East History 1914-1923.