Lawrence: The Uncrowned King of Arabia - Softcover

Asher, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014025854X ISBN 13: 9780140258547

Publisher: Penguin, 1999

Synopsis

'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.

About this title

About the Author:

Michael Asher has served in the Parachute Regiment and the SAS Regiment. The author of twenty-four books and presenter of six TV documentaries, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1996. For his writing and travels, he has been awarded the Lawrence of Arabia Memorial Medal, the Mungo Park Medal and the Ness Award. He lives in Nairobi, Kenya.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 014025854X
• ISBN 13: 9780140258547
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464