Revolt In The Desert
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68
1927
English
- Introduction and Foreword
- Storrs Goes to Jiddah
- Riding Up to Feisal
- Feisal and his Levies
- Checks Around Yenbo
- Feisal Strikes North
- Tactics and Politics
- Setting Out for Syria
- The Veritable Desert
- Feasts of the Tribes
- Nomads and Nomad Life
- Fighting to the Sea
- Akaba, Suez, Allenby
- Reforming Ourselves
- Pricking the Enemy
- Mines in the Railway
- Victory and Loot
- Making Up Our Minds
- Across the Line Again
- Services and Sermons
- Racing to the Bridge
- To Catch a Train
- Return to the World
- Fighting for Tafileh
- Winter Shuts Us Down
- The Siege of Maan
- Dawnay Attacks Shahm
- Transport and Supply
- Buxton and the I.C.C.
- Washing Our Linen
- In the Advance Guard
- We Cut the Main Lines
- Fighting Up and Down
- Royal Air Force Help
- The Turks Crumple Up
- Joining the British
- Entry Into Damascus
- Jerry-Cabinet-Making
Revolt in the Desert (1924) is a personal account by T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) of the 2 year Arab Revolt during the Great War. Beginning with the rout of King Feisal’s army by the Turks at Medina in 1916, it follows the campaign through to the fall of Damascus in 1918. As the Turks fled northwards, Feisal’s irregular cavalry entered Damascus unopposed, and “the Eastern war, perhaps the whole war, drew to a close”.
The book is an abridgement of his 1919 opus, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, which Winston Churchill described as a “treasure of the English language”, noting that “If Lawrence had never done anything except write this book as a mere work of the imagination his fame would last - to quote Macaulay’s hackneyed phrase - ‘as long as the English language is spoken in any quarter of the globe’…But it is fact, not fiction”. A gripping history of the Arab Insurgency - it tells the story of the Imperial Camel Corps, intrigues within the British Intelligence Services, the courage of the RAF, the sacrifices of the Ghurka and Indian infantry, and the long and bitter campaign that did so much to make the face of the modern Middle East - Summary by ASharma
The book is an abridgement of his 1919 opus, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, which Winston Churchill described as a “treasure of the English language”, noting that “If Lawrence had never done anything except write this book as a mere work of the imagination his fame would last - to quote Macaulay’s hackneyed phrase - ‘as long as the English language is spoken in any quarter of the globe’…But it is fact, not fiction”. A gripping history of the Arab Insurgency - it tells the story of the Imperial Camel Corps, intrigues within the British Intelligence Services, the courage of the RAF, the sacrifices of the Ghurka and Indian infantry, and the long and bitter campaign that did so much to make the face of the modern Middle East - Summary by ASharma
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