Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East

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Brown (1988) letters to E. M. Forster, 21Dec 1927; Robert Graves, 6Nov 1928; F. L. Lucas, 26March 1929. Sydney Smith, Clare (1940). The Golden Reign – The story of my friendship with Lawrence of Arabia. London: Cassell & Company. p.16. Lawrence's parents did not marry but lived together under the pseudonym Lawrence. [11] In 1914, his father inherited the Chapman baronetcy based at Killua Castle, the ancestral family home in County Westmeath, Ireland. [11] [12] The couple had five sons, Thomas (called "Ned" by his immediate family) being the second eldest. From Wales, the family moved in 1889 to Kirkcudbright, Galloway, in southwestern Scotland, then to the Isle of Wight, then to the New Forest, then to Dinard in Brittany, and then to Jersey. [13] Kerrigan, Michael (1998). Who Lies Where – A guide to famous graves. London: Fourth Estate Limited. p. 51. ISBN 978-1-85702-258-2. Aldington, Richard (1955). Lawrence of Arabia: A biographical enquiry. London: Collins. ISBN 978-1-122-22259-4.

Alleyne, Richard (30 July 2010). "Garland of Arabia: the forgotten story of TE Lawrence's brother-in-arms". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 11 January 2022 . Retrieved 29 March 2014. A legend in his own lifetime, Lawrence's epic story has always been ripe for the retelling - but Ranulph Fiennes is no ordinary biographer . . . Having led Arab troops into battle on the Arabian peninsula in a war fought only fifty years later. Fiennes too discovered the wonders of these far-flung lands and the people who live there, and is one of very few who can claim a true insight into the kind of life that Lawrence lived - bold and adventurous to the end. Orlans, Harold (2002). T. E. Lawrence: Biography of a broken hero. Jefferson, NC / London: McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-1307-2.

Wilson is also uncommonly persuasive when exploring Lawrence's later years, far from being a monastic retreat from reality, as a productive if often difficult period. Lawrence was constantly writing, from Seven Pillars to The Mint to translations of Homer and French literature; he made friends both among cultural and political leaders and in the enlisted ranks. While he initially struggled to process his guilt and trauma, not to mention his ongoing celebrity (fanned by American reporter Lowell Thomas, whose lecture series promoted Lawrence as the "Uncrowned King of Arabia"), by the late '20s Lawrence settled into a more or less comfortable existence. He landed a posting with the RAF that suited his talents, enjoyed a close friendship with Sydney Smith and his wife Claire, built a private home at Cloud's Hill and worked on seaplane development and rescue equipment; generally, "Airman Shaw" made the most of his postwar years. His death in 1935, though certainly untimely, was neither a suicide nor (as some absurd accounts claim) an assassination; Lawrence showed no signs that he was anything but content with the life he'd achieved by middle age. Finished reading this with my kids, but I probably enjoyed it the most. It was a fun introduction to Lawrence of Arabia written by Alstair MacLean in 1962. It focuses on the role that T.E. Lawrence played in the Arab Revolt during WWI. There is just enough wind-up with his early life, character, etc., and the history/geography of Arabia to insure the thrust of MacLean's small biography doesn't lose nonserious readers in a desert of Arab ignorance. But the book's real brilliance is in MacLean's depiction of the Capture of Aqaba, Battle of Tafileh and the Fall of Damascus. At the end, MacLean also ties the book off with a summary of the post-War years and some of the political results of T.E. Lawrence's work with Winston Churchill and the Colonial Office. What a life it was; he lived a life of real "Indiana Johns." It was tough, risky, exciting and intriguing.

a b c Graves, R. (1927). Lawrence and the Arabs. London, UK: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 978-0-7861-0781-0.Lawrence continued serving at several RAF bases, notably at RAF Mount Batten near Plymouth, RAF Calshot near Southampton, [156] and RAF Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire. [157] In the inter-war period, the RAF's Marine Craft Section began to commission air-sea rescue launches capable of higher speeds and greater capacity. The arrival of high-speed craft into the MCS was driven in part by Lawrence. He had previously witnessed a seaplane crew drowning when the seaplane tender sent to their rescue was too slow in arriving. He worked with Hubert Scott-Paine, the founder of the British Power Boat Company (BPBC), to introduce the 37.5-foot (11.4m) long ST 200 Seaplane Tender Mk1 into service. These boats had a range of 140 miles (230km) when cruising at 24 knots and could achieve a top speed of 29 knots. [158] [159]