John Mack explores the relationship between Lawrence's inner life and his historically significant actions. Interviews, correspondence, access to War Office dispatches and unpublished letters provide the basis for Macks's investigation of the psychological dimensions of Lawrence's personality. In addition, Mack examines the history, politics, and sociology of the time in order to weigh the real forces with which Lawrence contended and which impinged upon him.

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"The present book exposes a malicious forgery perpetrated by one Colonel Richard Meinerzhagen, British soldier, big game hunter, intell igence chief, ornithologist, Zionist, and colleague of Lawrence's, who was also a master forger. Although perpetrated by this detractor, the pseudo diary entries were unfortunately quoted by an astonishing number of Lawrence scholars over the years. The entries are largely of a critical nature and contain some of the most serious allegations of misconduct ever levelled against Lawrence. This book proves them, by was of both textual analysis and physical evidence, to have been fabricated by the elderly Meinertzhagen in the late 1950s." from the laid-in extract.

Colonel T.E. Lawrence was one of the most flamboyant figures of his era, known throughout the Western world as Lawrence of Arabia. Glory-seeking yet self-effacing, this soldier, archaeologist, spy, and scholar was a war hero whom Winston Churchill called "one of the greatest men of our time." Less well known were his abilities as historian and author, which won him the admiration of such writers as Ezra Pound, W.H. Auden, and Robert Graves.
While stationed on a desolate R.A.F. outpost on the fringes of the Karachi desert in India, Lawrence began his acclaimed translation of The Odyssey. He devoted himself to the project for four years, and during that time he came to feel that he was uniquely suited to the task. "I have hunted wild boars and watched wild lions," he wrote. "Built boats and killed many men. So I have odd knowledges that qualify me to understand The Odyssey, and odd experiences that interpret it to me." Relying on an innate sense of language and truly gifted abilities at translation, Lawrence transformed Homer's Odyssey into mellifluous prose. The result was an overnight bestseller. The New York Herald Tribune hailed it "perhaps the most interesting translation of the world's most interesting book," and The New York Times called it "ruggedly and roughly masculine" and added that it "gives a vividness to the story beyond any other text familiar to us."
Lawrence breathes new life into the adventures of Odysseus, smoothing the reader's path through a fantastic array of monsters, temptresses, gods, and goddesses. For a generation of readers accustomed to verse translations of Homer, this bold and vivid prose version is well worth rediscovery.
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Lawrence's second book, The Mint, consists of two autobiographical fragments. The first recounts his experiences as an RAF recruit at Uxbridge in 1922. The second describes his life as an aircraftman at Cranwell in 1925–6.
The Uxbridge chapters were to have opened a much longer book about the RAF, but he abandoned the project.
Some years later he began to think of extending The Mint. The enlarged version would cover the remainder of his service in the ranks from 1927 to 1935. For source-material, he would draw on letters to friends.
He did not live to do this, and The Mint – which contains some of his best writing – was finally published as it stood in 1955.
While working on their edition of Lawrence’s letters, Jeremy and Nicole Wilson made a selection from the many passages about his lif in the RAF, arranging them in the form of a diary. These 'Later Writings About Service Life' were first published in 2009. Read as a sequel to The Mint, they provide in Lawrence's own words a far more satisfactory account of his RAF years. They also help explain his affection for service life.
The edition is rounded off by passages from letters about The Mint. These set out the history of the text and Lawrence's attitude towards it.

A new edition of the classic text on Crusader castles and their relation to the military architecture of the West, written by T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia) while still an undergraduate at Oxford in 1910. At the end of the nineteenth century, it was generally assumed that these castles were the prototype for the massive buildings erected in Northern France and England in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Lawrence opposed this view: unlike most earlier writers on the subject, he was already familiar with castles in England, Wales, France and Syria as a result of a series of expeditions made on bicycle or foot, culminating in 1909 in a three-and-a-half month walking tour of the Levant. Although his thesis was to guarantee him a first-class degree in Modern History, its impact on scholarship was slower to take effect. The typescript remained virtually unknown until 1936, a year after the author's death, when it appeared in a limited edition of the Golden Cockerel Press. Crusader Castles is now offered to a wider readership. The original text is reproduced without alteration; but a selection of the pencilled notes which Lawrence added to the typescript, in preparation for a revision that was never made, are included as footnotes, together with additional editorial notes and bibliographical details. Lawrence's work is also assessed in the light of seventy-five years of subsequent research, in an introduction prepared by Denys Pringle.

“On the train from Cairo little Lawrence my super-cerebral companion." On 12 October 1916, Ronald Storrs, the British Oriental Secretary in Cairo, wrote these words in his diary as he set out for the Hejaz in the company of a young Military Intelligence officer stationed in Cairo, T. E. Lawrence. This would be Lawrence’s first visit to the Hejaz, and the beginning of a remarkable journey that would create the legend of Lawrence of Arabia. One hundred years later, Lawrence of Arabia’s War: Day By Day was originally conceived by the T. E. Lawrence Society as a unique and exciting way to commemorate the centenary of the Arab Revolt of 1916-1918 by posting Lawrence’s activities online each day in the form of a blog. Through these daily posts drawing on Lawrence’s wartime diaries, field notes, reports and correspondence, as well as the contemporary writings of fellow officers – accompanied by excerpts from Lawrence’s book Seven Pillars of Wisdom – it was hoped readers would gain a deeper appreciation of the part played by Lawrence in the desert campaign by reliving the events in “real time” over two years. Lawrence of Arabia’s War: Day By Day is now being published in print form to serve as a useful reference resource. It also offers a highly readable introduction to the events in the desert. Proceeds from sales of this book will be donated to the T. E. Lawrence Society, an educational charity which exists to promote research and to educate the public in the life and works of T. E. Lawrence