Revolt In The Desert [Illustrated Edition]

Colonel T. E. Lawrence

• Publisher: Lucknow Books
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN: 9781782892915
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Military Biographies
• Index: History

[World War One In The Desert Illustration Pack- Includes 92 photos and illustrations with 19 maps spanning the Desert campaigns 1914-1918]
Lieutenant-Colonel T. E. Lawrence has often been pictured as many differing characters; crank, madman, genius, visionary, man "gone native", pawn, military leader, highly strung, sensitive, arrogant. In fact even in his own writings he is a multi-faceted man of many talents and not a few failings; but what cannot be doubted is the importance of his actions during the First World War at the head of the Arab revolt in the Arabian Desert. At the time the Arabs were loosely affiliated, tribal and disunited; even the most senior Prince Faisal did not command uniform loyalty, and most firmly under the heel of the organized Turks of the Ottoman Empire. With the Turkish declaration of War against the Allies the British set about seeing if they could raise ferment and revolt on the long desert flank of their enemy. They sent the then Lieutenant Lawrence, a bookish classist and archaeologist but with knowledge of the area and the language of the Arabs, to be part of the British Mission. He had suddenly found his element among the Arabs who were captivated by his dashing inspired leadership as he led them from victory to victory over their oppressors. El Orens, as he was known to his men, became front page news in England and around the world, a merciful antidote to the long casualty lists from the mud of Flanders.
Lawrence wrote of his experiences with the British military mission first as "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom", but finding it to be a huge and cumbersome work, with many snap judgements that he had reason to regret, he edited his memoirs to form the more readable "Revolt in the Desert". The result is a marvellous work filled with the action, hardship and privation of the desert campaigns that made him a legend as Lawrence of Arabia.

WORLD WAR ONE IN THE DESERT ILLUSTRATION PACK

ILLUSTRATIONS

Figure 1 - T. E. LAWRENCE—After a portrait by AUGUSTUS JOHN

Figure 2 - SIR A. H. MCMAHON—(High Commissioner in Egypt)—After a portrait by W. ROBERTS

Figure 3 - SIR RONALD STORRS—(Governor of Jerusalem, Governor of Cyprus)—After a portrait by ERIC KENNINGTON

Figure 4 - REAR-ADMIRAL W. E. D. BOYLE—(S.N.O., Red Sea)—After a portrait by ERIC KENNINGTON

Figure 5 - COLONEL C. E. WILSON—(H.M. Diplomatic Agent, Jidda)—From a portrait by ERIC KENNINGTON

Figure 6 - D. G. HOGARTH—From a portrait by AUGUSTUS JOHN

Figure 7 - COLONEL S. F. NEWCOMBE, R. E.—From a portrait by W. ROBERTS

Figure 8 - EMIR SHAKIR—From a portrait by ERIC KENNINGTON

Figure 9 - GENERAL SIR REGINALD WINGATE—(Sirdar and High Commissioner in Egypt)—From a portrait by W. ROBERTS

Figure 10 - ABDULLA EL ZAAGI—(Captain of the author’s bodyguard)—From a portrait by ERIC KENNINGTON

Figure 11 - LORD LLOYD—(High Commissioner in Egypt)—From a portrait by W. ROBERTS

Figure 12 - H.M. KING FEISAL OF IRAK—From a portrait by AUGUSTUS JOHN

Figure 13 - STOKES GUN CLASS AT AKABA—From a drawing by COSMO CLARK.

Figure 14 - BOMBING THE TURKISH RETREAT IN WADI FARA—(Reproduced by permission of the Imperial War Museum) From a painting by S. CARLINE

Figure 15 - JAAFAR PASHA—(C.-in-C. Arab Northern Army, later Prime Minister, Irak) From a portrait by ERIC KENNINGTON

Figure 16 - Serj El Ateibi

Figure 17 - "Lawrence at Rabegh, north of Jidda, 1917"

Figure 18 - Lawrence at Akaba, 1917

Figure 19 - Soldiers in the Arab Army...

Table of contents

• Title page
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
• PUBLISHER’S NOTE
• FOREWORD
• I - STORRS GOES TO JIDDAH
• II - RIDING UP TO FEISAL
• III - FEISAL AND HIS LEVIES
• IV - CHECKS AROUND YENBO
• V - FEISAL STRIKES NORTH
• VI - TACTICS AND POLITICS
• VII -SETTING OUT FOR SYRIA
• VIII - THE VERITABLE DESERT
• IX - FEASTS OF THE TRIBES
• X - NOMADS AND NOMAD LIFE
• XII - AKABA, SUEZ, ALLENBY
• XIV - PRICKING THE ENEMY
• XV - MINES IN THE RAILWAY
• XVI - VICTORY AND LOOT
• XVII - MAKING UP OUR MINDS
• XVIII - ACROSS THE LINE AGAIN
• XIX - SERVICES AND SERMONS
• XX - RACING TO THE BRIDGE
• XXI - TO CATCH A TRAIN
• XXII - RETURN TO THE WORLD
• XXIII - FIGHTING FOR TAFILEH
• XXV - THE SIEGE OF MAAN
• XXVI - DAWNAY ATTACKS SHAHM
• XXVII - TRANSPORT AND SUPPLY
• XXVIII - BUXTON AND THE I.C.C.
• XXIX - WASHING OUR LINEN
• XXX - IN THE ADVANCE GUARD
• XXXI - WE CUT THE MAIN LINES
• XXXII - FIGHTING UP AND DOWN
• XXXIII - ROYAL AIR FORCE HELP
• XXXIV -THE TURKS CRUMPLE UP
• XXXV - JOINING THE BRITISH
• XXXVI - ENTRY INTO DAMASCUS
• XXXVII - JERRY-CABINET-MAKING
• REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER
• WORLD WAR ONE IN THE DESERT ILLUSTRATION PACK