LAWRENCE – The Uncrowned King of Arabia

Inbunden bok. Viking. 1998. 419 sidor.

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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.

"The best life of Lawrence yet published." - The Express.

"This is yet another splendid book by Asher, with a very different and somewhat unique approach to biography writing. As with most of his books, Lawrence is well paced, thoroughly documented and displays an interesting understanding of and insight into the nuances of the character who was otherwise very troubled and complex.
Asher's approach to biography writing differs markedly from most other authors. The approach adopted in Lawrence is to base it on "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" and then build around that with supporting facts and material. Asher has been fortunate to have access to the family archives and personal correspondence of Lawrence thus enabling him to portray a better and clearer picture of the man as well as the haunting complexities of his character.
Uniquely, Asher combines this traditional approach to biography writing with then jumping on a camel and taking the same tour as Lawrence from the Hejaz to Aqabah and from there through Palestine and to Damascus, often in harrowing conditions. This allows Asher to reveal when Lawrence was likely to have been economical about the truth in Seven Pillars and probably put an interpretation on why that would not otherwise be available to other writers. The book is further brought alive by Asher's attempt to re-visit scenes described in Seven Pillars as well as interviewing descendants and relatives of persons who Lawrence met and dealt with. All fascinating stuff."

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