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Seven Pillars of Wisdom A Triumph by T E Lawrence

In 1918 Lawrence rode into Damascus at the head of a victorious Arab army. Though his active service had lasted only two years, from 1916, in that brief period he rescued the Arab revolt from oblivion, formulated modern guerrilla warfare almost single-handedly and helped the Arabs to defeat Ottoman overlords who had dominated them for four hundred years. His account of that desert campaign is every bit as gripping as the legend suggests: with his small band of Beduin, he organised raiding parties and melted back into the desert where the Turks could not follow. His most famous triumph, the capture of the port of Akaba, ranks among the most brilliant operations in British military history.

When T. E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom first appeared in 1922 it was immediately recognized as a literary masterpiece. In writing his extraordinary account of the Arab Revolt of 1916–1918 and his own role in it, T.E. Lawrence sealed his place in history and legend as Lawrence of Arabia. Widely regarded as the last great romantic war story and described by Winston Churchill as one of “the greatest books ever written in the English language,” it conveys a world of wonders, written in the same committed fashion that Lawrence applied to his duties in Syria, this is a towering achievement of both autobiography and military history, as well as a first-rate adventure story.

Features;

• Epics of Empire and Exploration Series
• Folio Society First Impression No. 1048
• Publisher Folio Society, London; 2000
• Light Brown Hardback, 584 pp
• Contemporary photographs of Lawrence and others
• Size 250 x 170mm, 1.9kg

Condition: Near Fine – Light Mark to Slipcase, Book Superb Unmarked Copy

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