Author: Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart
Publisher: London : Cape
ISBN:
Category : Soldiers
Languages : en
Pages : 498

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Joyce, P.C.; King Husein; Hogarth, D.G.; Lord Kirchener; King Feisal; Faisal; Dawnay, A.; Lord Curzon; Churchill; Auda; General Allenby; Emir Ali; Emir Abdullah; Islam; Abd el Kader; General Foch; Hemmelig Agent; Undergrundsvirksomhed;Tyrkiske Rige; Ottoman Empire; Mellemkrigsårene; Desillusion;

Author: Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby Allenby (Viscount)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780750938419
Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages : 370

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General Sir Edmund Allenby spent his early years soldiering in Africa. After the South African War he went on to fight in the First World War in France and Belgium before taking charge of the British-led expeditionary force in Palestine in June 1917. This volume examines Allenby's Middle-Eastern military and political correspondence as he made the shift from general to colonial administrator. It covers an immensely significant twenty-eight month period during which British-led forces under Allenby conquered the Levant and then established the basic political framework for the contemporary Middle East.

Author: B. H. Liddell Hart
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0786748230
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 458

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T. E. Shaw, better known as Lawrence of Arabia, was one of the most romantic, heroic, and enigmatic figures of his day. The subject of myth and hagiography, he was equally accomplished in several fields -- as archaeologist, diplomat, writer, and soldier -- and he worked throughout World War I and after in the Middle East in efforts to promote independent Arab states. His autobiography Seven Pillars of Wisdom is one of the greatest works of its kind. The esteemed military historian B. H. Liddell Hart wrote this study of Lawrence in order to pierce the clouds of legend. He discussed Lawrence's Oxford days, his experiences as an intelligence officer in Egypt, and in particular the tactics of guerrilla warfare he practiced so effectively against the large Turkish armies during World War I. Liddell Hart was one of the few to give Lawrence his full justice as both a man and a brilliant soldier. Long out-of-print, this book unravels the many puzzling features of Lawrence's story and restores him to his proper place as one of the twentieth century's heroic, but very human, figures.

Author: Philip Walker
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198802277
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313

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'Lawrence of Arabia' became world-famous during the Arab Revolt of 1916-18. However, his achievements would have been impossible without the efforts of an unsung band of fellow officers and spies. Their compelling and forgotten stories provide a new perspective on Lawrence and the renowned WWI campaign.

Author: L. Robert Morris
Publisher: New York ; Toronto : Doubleday
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Two years in the making and the winner of seven Academy Awards, David Lean's screen classic Lawrence of Arabia has been seen and enjoyed by millions since 1962. Specially compiled for the film's 30th anniversary, this volume provides, for the first time, an account of this film's remarkable genesis, artistry, and influence.

Author: Hamid Dabashi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316512851
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233

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A vibrant, unique and personal examination of the overlap between history and memory, focusing on Iranian childhoods.

Author: Hamid Dabashi
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 113758775X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 345

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In this unprecedented book, Hamid Dabashi provides a provocative account of Iran in its current resurrection as a mighty regional power. Through a careful study of contemporary Iranian history in its political, literary, and artistic dimensions, Dabashi decouples the idea of Iran from its colonial linkage to the cliché notion of “the nation-state,” and then demonstrates how an “aesthetic intuition of transcendence” has enabled it to be re-conceived as a powerful nation. This rebirth has allowed for repressed political and cultural forces to surface, redefining the nation’s future beyond its fictive postcolonial borders and autonomous from the state apparatus that wishes but fails to rule it. Iran’s sovereignty, Dabashi argues, is inaugurated through an active and open-ended self-awareness of the nation’s history and recent political and aesthetic instantiations, as it has been sustained by successive waves of revolutionary prose, poetry, and visual and performing arts performed categorically against the censorial will of the state.

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 848

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Every 3rd issue is a quarterly cumulation.

Author: Scott Anderson
Publisher: Signal
ISBN: 0771007671
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 560

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The Arab Revolt against the Turks in World War I was, in the words of T.E. Lawrence, "a sideshow to a sideshow." As a result, the conflict was shaped to a remarkable degree by four men far removed from the corridors of power. Curt Pruefer was an effete academic attached to the German embassy in Cairo, whose clandestine role was to foment jihad against British rule. Aaron Aaronsohn was a renowned agronomist and committed Zionist who gained the trust of the Ottoman governor of Palestine. William Yale was the fallen scion of the American aristocracy, who traveled the Ottoman Empire on behalf of Standard Oil, dissembling to the Turks in order gain valuable oil concessions. At the center of it all was Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence. In early 1914 he was an archaeologist digging ruins in Syria; by 1919 he was riding into legend at the head of an Arab army, as he fought a rearguard action against his own government and its imperial ambitions. Based on four years of intensive primary document research, Lawrence in Arabia definitively overturns received wisdom on how the modern Middle East was formed. Sweeping in its action, keen in its portraiture, acid in its condemnation of the destruction wrought by European colonial plots, this is a book that brilliantly captures the way in which the folly of the past creates the anguish of the present.

Author: University of California (System). Institute of Library Research
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 876

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