Buy this book on-line BROWN, MALCOLM: : Lawrence of Arabia - the Life, the LegendLONDON.THAMES & HUDSON/in Association with IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM,2005. ISBN 0500512388.
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T.E. Lawrence ws the first modern celebrity. From the moment,not long after his death in 1935,that Alexander Korda set out (to) make a film of his life - a dream that only became a reality in the hands of David Lean in the 1960s through Peter O'Toole's riveting performance - the almost mythic figure of the man on a camel enacting a heroic dream has captured the imagination of each succeeding generation.
Now,seventy years from Lawrence's death,this visual biography takes us inside the mind of a man of extraordinary energy,ability and charisma who seemed to have everything in his hands only to throw it away,turning the rest of his life into an obsessive quest for anonymity and sanctuary.
In Lawrence's own atmospheric photographs, haunting paintings of the desert and its peoples,evocative drawings and ephemera,all supported by quotations from his personal account of his experiences,we are able to enjoy the unfolding drama at first hand.
Fiercely ambitious,yet fatally ambivalent about recognition,Lawrence made a brilliant academic career at Oxford before the First World War with a thesis on Crusader castles,before excavating at Carchemish while learning Arabic.Army intelligence work in Egypt in the early years of he war was the prelude to his paticipation in the great Arab Revolt against the Ottomans,fame at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 and work with Winston Churchill in the war's aftermath. But then came a relentlees,restless,self-abasing search for obscurity under assumed names, culminating in a motorbike crash and death at the age of only forty six.
This book,and the major exhibition at the Imperial War Museum that it accompanies,combine to shed new light on this enigmatic, contradictory and troubled man - a character of universal appeal who lived on the edge in all that he did.
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