Book description
'The best life of Lawrence yet published' - The Express
Lawrence was a brilliant propagandist, rhetorician and manipulator,
who deliberately turned his life into a conundrum. But who was the
real man behind the masks? Lawrence began the GreatWar as a map-clerk
and ended it as one of the greatest military heroes of the 20th
century. He altered the face of the Middle East, helped to lead the
Arabs to freedom and formulated modern guerilla warfare. Yet he
refused any honours and spent therest of his life in near obscurity.
Desert explorer and Arabist, Michael Asher, set out to solve this
riddle and discovers a hero whose greatness owed as much to his
weaknesses as to his strengths.
Michael Asher is one of Britain's most prominent desert explorers. He
is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has won the Ness
Award of the RGS and the Mungo Park Medal of the Royal Scottish
Geographical Society. He is the author of eight books including the
acclaimed Thesiger, Lawrence and The Real Story of Bravo Two Zero. He
now lives in Nairobi in Kenya.
