Lawrence Arabia Deceit Imperial Folly by Anderson Scott (226 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition; Third Printing. A near-fine volume in a near-fine DJ, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 577 pages; "Based on four years of intensive primary document research, Lawrence in Arabia definitively overturns received wisdom on how the modern Middle East was formed. Sweeping in its action, keen in its portraiture, acid in its condemnation of the destruction wrought by European colonial plots, this is a book that brilliantly captures the way in which the folly of the past creates the anguish of the present.".

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First edition. 8vo. [xii], 577 pp. Photographic illustrations. Hardcover binding in unclipped dustwrapper, like new condition. (126514).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition UK. In a thrilling and revelatory narrative that tells the story of one of the most epic and consequential periods of the twentieth century, Scott Anderson not only presents an incisive portrait of the man who rode onto legend at the head of an Arab army but also sheds light on the creation of the modern Middle East. The corners of the cover are turned and there is light marking to the text block. A good, square tight copy.

Soft Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Advance Reading Copy. First Edition. Publisher's illustrated card wraps. One small stain on the fore-edge only, else as new; unmarked, unread, tight, square, and clean. Scarce advance reading copy. NEAR FINE. . Trade PB. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xii, (ii), 576, (1) pp.

First US edition. Hardcover, octavo; black papered boards with red spine and gilt spine titling, endpaper maps; 577pp., monochrome plates. Minor wear; a few small marks on text block edges. Near fine in like dustwrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. Lawrence 'of Arabia' has been done almost to death by biographers, military historians and filmmakers. They have been drawn to his genius as a leader and the ill-fitting components of that genius - his misgivings as an imperialist, his tortured sexuality, and that compound of arrogance and self-effacement ('backing into the limelight', as someone put it, allegedly Churchill) that has kept his soul satisfyingly open to interpretation. In this book, Scott Anderson expands and contextualises the familiar Lawrence story - as his title, Lawrence in Arabia, suggests. Rather than depict a hero in isolation, he puts Lawrence alongside three spooks who rubbed shoulders with him in the Middle East: Aaron Aaronsohn, a Jewish colonist in Palestine, who spied for Britain as a way of furthering Zionism; Carl Prufer, a German diplomat who dreamed of fomenting jihad against the British; and William Yale, a well-connected oil man (his great-great-uncle founded Yale University) who became, in August 1917, the state department's 'special agent' for the Middle East. Anderson's supporting characters are colourful, even if none approaches Lawrence in stature and pathos. . For all his heartfelt Arabism, Lawrence himself was a failed kingmaker. So why does his finely grained character continue to impress on our vision of the Middle East - and on Anderson's intelligent and original, if somewhat unevenly written, group portrait? One reason is his glorious irreverence, disappearing into the desert to avoid unwelcome orders, exulting in his ignorance of the protocols of the commissariat. Also, he was right in many things, recognising before the Gallipoli debacle what subsequent military historians have tended to confirm: that the port of Alexandretta, on Turkey's exposed underside, would have been a preferable launch pad for an assault. Needless to say, his recommendations to that effect were not acted on. And yet for all Lawrence's outsider status and unconventional views, Britain's military machine in the Middle East contained enough sound men for him to thrive - and to emerge from the war one of the most admired men in Britain. In his well-constructed demolition of Britain's 'amateurs', Anderson neglects the paradox that Lawrence, an archaeologist who never received a day's military training, a scholar and an aesthete amid the blood and guts, was the greatest amateur of them all." - Christopher de Bellaigue.

Hardcover. First Edition; Fifth Printing. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.

American First Edition (stated), with printing sequence line '357910864'. Publisher's brown quarter cloth with black paper covered boards, gilt titles to spine, illustrated map endpapers showing the Middle Eastern Front in Word War I. Clear, removable, archival protective sleeve fitted to dust-jacket. Octavo. pp. xiv, 578. A book in Very Good condition in a Very Good dust-jacket, creased at lower front edge but not price-clipped.

3rd printing dust jacket Nice Copy octavo 575pp., b/w plates, maps, notes, bibliog., index, 'The Arab Revolt against the Turks in World War One was, in the words of T.E. Lawrence, 'a side-show of a sides-how'. Amidst the slaughter in European trenches, the Western combatants paid scant attention to the Middle Eastern theatre. As a result, the conflict was shaped to a remarkable degree by a small handful of adventurers and low-level officers far removed from the corridors of power. At the centre of it all was Lawrence'.

reprint dust jacket As New octavo 577pp., b/w plates, ep maps, bibliog., index, 'The Arab Revolt against the Turks in World War One was, in the words of T.E. Lawrence, 'a side-show of a sides-how'. Amidst the slaughter in European trenches, the Western combatants paid scant attention to the Middle Eastern theatre. As a result, the conflict was shaped to a remarkable degree by a small handful of adventurers and low-level officers far removed from the corridors of power. At the centre of it all was Lawrence'.

1st edition / 1st printing dust jacket As New octavo 577pp., b/w plates, ep maps, bibliog., index, 'The Arab Revolt against the Turks in World War One was, in the words of T.E. Lawrence, 'a side-show of a sides-how'. Amidst the slaughter in European trenches, the Western combatants paid scant attention to the Middle Eastern theatre. As a result, the conflict was shaped to a remarkable degree by a small handful of adventurers and low-level officers far removed from the corridors of power. At the centre of it all was Lawrence'.