With Lawrence in Arabia

Lowell Thomas

• Publisher: Skyhorse
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9781510715721
• eBook ISBN:
  9781510715738
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Military Biographies
• Index: History

In 1918, as the First World War ravaged the European continent, young American journalist Lowell Thomas traveled to the Ottoman Empire to report on the revolts breaking out as an indirect result of the savage European conflict. While in Jerusalem, he met and struck up a friendship with the infamous young British captain, T.E. Lawrence. Based on his travels and interviews with Lawrence, Thomas wrote the now classic With Lawrence in Arabia, the book that spawned the Lawrence of Arabia legend and served as the basis for the award-winning 1961 film of the same name.Fantastically paced with equal measures of fact and adventure, Thomas narrates the exploits of the infamous British agent who against all odds managed to join several factious Arabian tribes into a single combat unit. With Lawrence in command, this guerilla force would go on to defeat the great Turkish Army and ensure the eventual demise of the previously impenetrable Ottoman Empire.On the sweeping and the exotic Arabian desert that serves as the setting for this epic account, Thomas brings to life dozens of great historical figures including Emir Feisel, King Hussein I of Hedjaz, British General Edmund Alleby, and Lawrence, the enigmatic, "modern knight of Arabia." With new forewords by modern explorers, this Explorer's Club Classic edition of With Lawrence in Arabia is a must-have for every history buff and arm-chair adventurer.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Title Page
• CONTENTS
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS FOR THE 2017 EDITION
• INTRODUCTION
• INTRODUCTION TO THE 2017 EDITION
• I A MODERN ARABIAN KNIGHT
• III IN SEARCH OF A LOST CIVILIZATION
• III THE ARCHAEOLOGIST TURNED SOLDIER
• IV THE CULT OF THE BLOOD OF MOHAMMED
• V THE FALL OF JEDDAH AND MECCA
• VI THE GATHERING OF THE DESERT TRIBES
• VII THE BATTLE AT THE WELLS OF ABU EL LISSAL
• VIII THE CAPTURE OF KING SOLOMON’S ANCIENT SEAPORT
• IX ACROSS THE RED SEA TO JOIN LAWRENCE AND FEISAL
• X THE BATTLE OF SEIL EL HASA
• XI LAWRENCE THE TRAIN-WRECKER
• XII DRINKERS OF THE MILK OF WAR
• XIII AUDA ABU TAYI, THE BEDOUIN ROBIN HOOD
• XIV KNIGHTS OF THE BLACK TENTS
• XV MY LORD THE CAMEL
• XVI ABDULLAH THE POCK-MARKED, AND THE STORY OF FERRAJ AND DAOUD
• XVII AN EYE FOR AN EYE AND A TOOTH FOR A TOOTH
• XVIII A ROSE-RED CITY HALF AS OLD AS TIME
• XIX A BEDOUIN BATTLE IN A CITY OF GHOSTS
• XX THE RELATIVE IN MY HOUSE
• XXI THROUGH THE TURKISH LINES IN DISGUISE
• XXII THE GREATEST HOAX SINCE THE TROJAN HORSE
• XXIII A CAVALRY NAVAL ENGAGEMENT AND LAWRENCE’S LAST GREAT RAID
• XXIV THE DOWNFALL OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE
• XXV LAWRENCE RULES IN DAMASCUS, AND THE TREACHERY OF THE ALGERIAN EMIR
• XXVI TALES OF THE SECRET CORPS
• XXVII JOYCE & CO., AND THE ARABIAN KNIGHTS OF THE AIR
• XXVIII FEISAL AND LAWRENCE AT THE BATTLE OF PARIS
• XXIX LAWRENCE NARROWLY ESCAPES DEATH; ADVENTURES OF FEISAL AND HUSSEIN
• XXX LAWRENCE FLEES FROM LONDON, AND FEISAL BECOMES KING IN BAGDAD
• XXXI THE SECRET OF LAWRENCE’S SUCCESS
• XXXII THE ART OF HANDLING ARABS
• XXXIII LAWRENCE THE MAN