![]() Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Title: Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Author: T. E. Lawrence (1. A Project Gutenberg of Australia e. Book *. e. Book No.: 0. Language: English. Date first posted: October 2. Dystopian Wars: Fleet Action Fast Play Rules. Major Nation Statistics The following PDF downloads contain the latest Statistics for the exciting Dystopian Wars: Fleet.
Date most recently updated: September 2. This e. Book was produced by: Colin Choat. Project Gutenberg of Australia e. Books are created from printed editions. Australia, unless a copyright notice. We do NOT keep any e. Books in compliance with a particular. Barbarossa, a pirate, frees a group of Spanish prisoners and makes them his crew. On a raid, he takes as a prize a Spanish countess, Alida.Be sure to check the. You may copy it, give it away or re- use it under the terms. Project Gutenberg of Australia License which may be viewed online at. GO TO Project Gutenberg of Australia HOME PAGEby. T. E. Sir Herbert Baker let me. Westminster houses. The book so written passed in 1. Particularly it owes its. Mr. Bernard Shaw for countless suggestions of great. It does not pretend to be impartial. I was fighting for my hand. Please take it as a personal narrative piece out of. I could not make proper notes: indeed it would have been a. Arabs if I had picked such flowers while they. My superior officers, Wilson, Joyce, Dawnay, Newcombe and. Davenport could each tell a like tale. The same is true of Stirling. Young, Lloyd and Maynard: of Buxton and Winterton: of Ross, Stent and. Siddons: of Peake, Homby, Scott- Higgins and Garland: of Wordie, Bennett. Mac. Indoe: of Bassett, Scott, Goslett, Wood and Gray: of Hinde. Spence and Bright: of Brodie and Pascoe, Gilman and Grisenthwaite. Greenhill, Dowsett and Wade: of Henderson, Leeson, Makins and. Nunan. And there were many other leaders or lonely fighters to whom this. It is still less fair, of course. T. S. Cranwell, 1. CONTENTSINTRODUCTORY CHAPTERINTRODUCTION. Foundations of Revolt. BOOK ONE. The Discovery of Feisal. BOOK TWO. Opening the Arab Offensive. BOOK THREE. A Railway Diversion. BOOK FOUR. Extending to Akaba. BOOK FIVE. The Raid upon the Bridges. BOOK SEVEN. The Dead Sea Campaign. BOOK EIGHT. The Ruin of High Hope. BOOK NINE. Balancing for a Last Effort. BOOK TEN. The House is Perfected. EPILOGUEAPPENDICESILLUSTRATIONSPLATESAuthor. Feysal. Emir Abdulla. Auda Abu Tayi. Author. Allenby. Bombing in Wadi Fara. Entering Damascus. SKETCHESA Forced Landing. Wind. A Misscarriage. Kindergarten. A Literary Method. Caesar. PHOTOGRAPHS0. Imperial War Museum. Ghadir Osman, on the return journey from Ais to Wejh. Imperial War Museum. Lawrence's house on the right. Imperial War Museum. Sgt Perry, A. V. C., Captain Hornby, and Lt Wade, with Colonel Lawrence's Ghazala and foal. Imperial War Museum. Emir Sherif Feisal, by James Mc. Bey. Imperial War Museum. From left to right: An unknown tribesman, Mohamed el Dheilan, Auda abu Tayi, an unknown with a moustache, Auda's young son Mohamed, aged eleven, two unknown tribesmen. Feisal and Ageyl bodyguard. Imperial War Museum. Imperial War Museum. Lawrence in Arab dress. General Sir Edmund Allenby, K. C. B., by James Mc. Bey. Imperial War Museum. Remains of Lt Junor's B. E. 1. 2 aeroplane. Imperial War Museum. Rolls- Royce tender at Akaba, with Colonel Joyce in front seat and Corporal Lowe at the bonnet. Imperial War Museum. MAPSMap IMap IIMap IIIMap IVINTRODUCTORY CHAPTERThe story which follows was first written out in Paris during the. Peace Conference, from notes jotted daily on the march, strengthened by. Cairo. Afterwards, in the autumn of. It seemed to me. historically needful to reproduce the tale, as perhaps no one but. Feisal's army had thought of writing down at the time what we. So it was built again with heavy. London in the winter of 1. The record of events was not dulled in me and perhaps. Dates and places are correct, so far as my notes preserved them: but. Since the adventure some of those who. Free use has been made of their names. Others still possess. Sometimes one man carried. This may hide individuality and make the book a scatter. This isolated picture throwing the main light upon myself is unfair. British colleagues. Especially I am most sorry that I have not. They were but wonderful. It is. intended to rationalize the campaign, that everyone may see how natural. British. In reality I never had any office among. Arabs: was never in charge of the British mission with them. I. flattered myself that I was too young, not that they had more heart or. I did my best. Wilson, Newcombe, Dawnay, Davenport. Buxton, Marshall, Stirling, Young, Maynard, Ross, Scott, Winterton. Lloyd, Wordie, Siddons, Goslett, Stent Henderson, Spence, Gilman. Garland, Brodie, Makins, Nunan, Leeson, Hornby, Peake, Scott- Higgins. Ramsay, Wood, Hinde, Bright, Mac. Indoe, Greenhill, Grisenthwaite. Dowsett, Bennett, Wade, Gray, Pascoe and the others also did their. It would be impertinent in me to praise them. When I wish to say ill. I do it: though there is less of this than. When I wish to praise outsiders, I do it: bur our family. We did what we set out to do, and have the. The others have liberty some day to put. I of them, for each of us did his job by himself and as he. In these pages the history is not of the Arab movement, but of me in. It is a narrative of daily life, mean happenings, little people. It. is filled with trivial things, partly that no one mistake for history. We were. fond together, because of the sweep of the open places, the taste of. The moral. freshness of the world- to- be intoxicated us. We were wrought up in. We lived many. lives in those whirling campaigns, never sparing ourselves: yet when we. We stammered that we had worked for a new heaven and a new. All men dream: but nor equally, Those who dream by night in the. I meant to. make a new nation, to restore! So high an aim called out the. British. petrol royalties in Mesopotamia were become dubious, and French. Colonial policy ruined in the Levant. I am afraid that I hope so. We pay for these things too much in. I went up the Tigris with one hundred. Devon Territorials, young, clean, delightful fellows, full of the power. By them one saw. vividly how great it was to be their kin, and English. And we were. casting them by thousands into the fire to the worst of deaths, not to. Mesopotamia might be. The only need was to defeat our enemies (Turkey among them), and. Allenby with less than four. Turkey. I am proudest of my thirty fights in that I did not have any of. All our subject provinces to me were not worth one. Englishman. We were three years over this effort and I have had to hold back. Even so, parts of this book will. Once I reported fully to my chiefs, but learnt that. This was not as it should. Honours may be necessary in a professional army, as so many. For my work on the Arab front I had determined to accept nothing. Arabs believe in persons, not in. They saw in me a free agent of the British Government. So I had. to join the conspiracy, and, for what my word was worth, assured the. In our two years' partnership under fire they grew. Government, like myself. In this hope they performed some fine things, but, of course. I was bitterly. ashamed. It was evident from the beginning that if we won the war these. I been an honest adviser of the. Arabs I would have advised them to go home and not risk their lives. I salved myself with the hope that, by. Arabs madly in the final victory I would establish them. Great Powers a fair settlement of. In other words, I presumed (seeing no other leader with. I would survive the campaigns, and be able to. Turks on the battlefield, but my own country and. It was an immodest presumption: it. I succeeded: but it is clear that I had no shadow. Arabs, unknowing, in such hazard. I risked the. fraud, on my conviction that Arab help was necessary to our cheap and. East, and that better we win and break our word. The dismissal of Sir Henry Mc. Mahon confirmed my belief in our. I could not so explain myself to General. Wingate while the war lasted, since I was nominally under his orders. The. only thing remaining was to refuse rewards for being a successful. I began in my. reports to conceal the true stories of things, and to persuade the few. Arabs who knew to an equal reticence. In this book also, for the last. I mean to be my own judge of what to say. INTRODUCTION. Foundations of Revolt. CHAPTERS I TO VIISome Englishmen, of whom Kitchener was chief, believed. Arabs against Turks would enable England, while. Germany, simultaneously to defeat her ally Turkey. Their knowledge of the nature and power and country of the. Arabic- speaking peoples made them think that the issue of such a. So they allowed it to begin, having obtained for it formal. British Government. It aroused mixed feelings and made strong friends. CHAPTER ISome of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked. By day the hot sun fermented us. At night we were stained by. We. were a self- centred army without parade or gesture, devoted to freedom. As time went by our need to fight for the ideal increased to an. We had sold ourselves into its slavery. The mentality of. By our own act we were drained of morality, of volition, of. The everlasting battle stripped from us care of our own lives or of. We had ropes about our necks, and on our heads prices which. Each day some of us passed; and the living knew themselves just. God's stage: indeed, our taskmaster was merciless. The weak envied those tired enough to die; for success looked so. We. lived always in the stretch or sag of nerves, either on the crest or in. This impotency was bitter to us, and. Gusts of cruelty, perversions, lusts ran lightly over the. We had. learned that there were pangs too sharp, griefs too deep, ecstasies too. When emotion reached this pitch. Such exaltation of thought, while it let adrift the spirit, and gave. Therefore, we abandoned it as rubbish: we left it below us to. The men were young and sturdy; and hot flesh and blood. Our privations and dangers fanned this virile heat. We had no shut places to. Man in all things. The Arab was by nature continent; and the use of universal marriage. The public women. In horror of such sordid commerce. Later, some began to justify this sterile. Several, thirsting to. I was sent to these Arabs as a stranger, unable to think their. England in her war.
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