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Book SynopsisWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT FISK
Seven Pillars of Wisdom is an unusual and rich work. It encompasses an account of the Arab Revolt against the Turks during the First World War alongside general Middle Eastern and military history, politics, adventure and drama. It is also a memoir of the soldier known as ''Lawrence of Arabia''.Lawrence is a fascinating and controversial figure and his talent as a vivid and imaginative writer shines through on every page of this, his masterpiece. Seven Pillars of Wisdom provides a unique portrait of this extraordinary man and an insight into the birth of the Arab nation
Trade ReviewIt ranks with the greatest books ever written in the English language.As a narrative of war and adventure...it is unsurpassable -- Winston Churchill
Round this tent-pole of a military chronicle, T. E. has hung an unexampled fabric of portraits, descriptions, philosophies, emotions, adventures, dreams -- E.M. Forster
I am not much of a hero-worshipper but I could have followed T.E. Lawrence over the edge of the world -- John Buchan
Seven Pillars of Wisdom is one of the major statements about the fighting experience of the First World War -- Angus Calder
Emotional and mythic * Guardian *
