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'''Thomas Edward Lawrence''', known as 'Lawrence of Arabia' (August 16, 1888 in Tremadoc, Wales - May 19, 1935 in Bovington, Dorset), was educated as an archaeologist and historian. After the outbreak of the Great War, he became an intelligence officer and a liaison officer with the Arab Revolt from 1916-1918. From 1921 to 1922 he was a member of the Colonial Office and instrumental in the founding of the Arab states in the Middle East. Though ending the War as a Colonel, he served from 1922 to 1935 as a soldier in the Tank Corps and the Royal Air Force. Despite his awareness of his extraordinary personality and his self-confidence, he ardently wished to be considered not so much as an adventurer and war hero, but as an author.
'''Thomas Edward Lawrence''', also known as 'Lawrence of Arabia' (August 16, 1888 in Tremadoc, Wales - May 19, 1935 in Bovington, Dorset), was educated as an archaeologist and historian. After the outbreak of the Great War, he became an intelligence officer and a liaison officer with the Arab Revolt from 1916-1918. From 1921 to 1922 he was a member of the Colonial Office and instrumental in the founding of the Arab states in the Middle East. Though ending the War as a Colonel, he served from 1922 to 1935 as a soldier in the Tank Corps and the Royal Air Force. Despite his awareness of his extraordinary personality and his self-confidence, he ardently wished to be considered not so much as an adventurer and war hero, but as an author.


==Early life and education==
==Early life and education==

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Thomas Edward Lawrence, also known as 'Lawrence of Arabia' (August 16, 1888 in Tremadoc, Wales - May 19, 1935 in Bovington, Dorset), was educated as an archaeologist and historian. After the outbreak of the Great War, he became an intelligence officer and a liaison officer with the Arab Revolt from 1916-1918. From 1921 to 1922 he was a member of the Colonial Office and instrumental in the founding of the Arab states in the Middle East. Though ending the War as a Colonel, he served from 1922 to 1935 as a soldier in the Tank Corps and the Royal Air Force. Despite his awareness of his extraordinary personality and his self-confidence, he ardently wished to be considered not so much as an adventurer and war hero, but as an author.

Early life and education

In World War I

At the Versailles Peace Conference and in the Colonial Office

In the ranks

His writings

His character and his appeal

Notes


Bibliography

Most important writings

  • Woolley, C. Leonard, and T. E. Lawrence. The Wilderness of Zin: Archeological Report. With a chapter on the Greek inscriptions by M[arcus]. N. Tod. Palestine Exploration Fund, Annual, 3. London: Off. of the Fund, 1915. New edition, Preface by Jonathan Tubb, introduction by Sam T. Moorhead. London: Stacey International, 2003.
  • Lawrence, Thomas Edward. Revolt in the Desert. London: Jonathan Cape / New York: George H. Doran, 1927. (Lawrence's abridgement of the Seven Pillars.)
  • Lawrence, Thomas Edward. Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph. [First privately printed in 1926.] London: Jonathan Cape, 1935. (Many reprints.) Still available at Penguin Books.
  • Lawrence, Thomas Edward. Crusader Castles. London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1936. (The best edition by Denys Pringle [Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988]).
  • Lawrence, Thomas Edward. Secret Despatches from Arabia. Ed. by Arnold W. Lawrence. London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1939. New edition, Secret Despatches from Arabia and Other Writings. Ed. and introduced by Malcolm Brown. London: Bellew Publishing, 1991. Best edition, T. E. Lawrence in War and Peace. Edited by Malcolm Brown. Greenhill Books, 2005.
  • Lawrence, Thomas Edward. Oriental Assembly. With photographs by the author. Ed. by Arnold W. Lawrence. London: Williams and Norgate, 1939. (Includes Lawrence's diary of his tour in 1911, which he undertook after the end of the excavation season; also the first chapter of the Seven Pillars, which remained unpublished in 1935.) Facsimile edition with new introduction by Malcolm Brown. London: Imperial War Museum, 1991.
  • Lawrence, Thomas Edward. The Mint [: A Day-Book of the R.A.F. Depot between August and December 1922 with Later Notes by 352087 A/c Ross.] London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. (Published posthumously; the first edition of the unexpurgated text was published in London by Jonathan Cape, 1973. Reprinted)
  • Lawrence, Thomas Edward. Evolution of a Revolt. Ed. by Stanley and Rodelle Weintraub. University Park, Pa.: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1968. (Good, but incomplete collection of Lawrence's post-war writings.)
  • Wilson, Jeremy, ed. Minorities. Preface by C. Day Lewis. London: Jonathan Cape, 1971. (Lawrence's collection of his favorite poetry.)
  • Lawrence, Thomas Edward. Lawrence of Arabia, Strange Man of Letters. Ed. By Harold Orlans. Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1993. (Letters, reviews and literary writings.)
  • Lawrence, Thomas Edward. The Complete 1922 Seven Pillars of Wisdom: The ‘Oxford’ text. Edited by Jeremy and Nicole Wilson. 1997. Fordingbridge, Hampshire: J. and N. Wilson, 2004.

Letter editions

  • Lawrence, Thomas Edward. T. E. Lawrence to His Biographer, Robert Graves: Information about Himself, in the Form of Letters, Notes and Answers to Questions, Edited with a Critical Commentary [by Robert Graves]. London: Faber and Faber, 1938.
  • Lawrence, Thomas Edward. T. E. Lawrence to His Biographer, Liddell Hart: Information about Himself, in the Form of Letters, Notes, Answers to Questions and Conversations. [Edited by Basil H. Liddell Hart.] London: Faber and Faber, 1938.
  • (Both editions in one book reprinted, with original paging and an index:] Lawrence, Thomas Edward. T. E. Lawrence to His Biographers Robert Graves and Liddell Hart. London: Cassell 1963.
  • Lawrence, Thomas Edward. The Letters of T. E. Lawrence. Edited by David Garnett. London: Jonathan Cape, 1938. [Reprint edition:] With a Foreword by Captain B. H. Liddell Hart. London: Spring Books, 1964.
  • Lawrence, Thomas Edward. Shaw-Ede: T. E. Lawrence’s Letters to H. S. Ede, 1927-1935. Edited, with a Foreword and a Running Commentary by Harold Stanley Ede. London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1942.
  • Lawrence, Thomas Edward. The Home Letters of T. E. Lawrence and His Brothers. [Edited by M. R. Lawrence.] Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1954. (Important for the early years from 1906 to 1918; some expurgations by the editor, i.e. Lawrence's oldest brother.]
  • Lawrence, Arnold W., ed. Letters to T. E. Lawrence. London: Jonathan Cape, 1962.
  • Lawrence, Thomas Edward. Letters from T. E. Lawrence to E. T. Leeds. Edited by Jeremy Wilson. Andoversford: Whittington Press, 1988.
  • Lawrence, Thomas Edward. The Letters of T. E. Lawrence. Selected and edited by Malcolm Brown. London: Dent, 1988. Corrected edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. (A very good one-volume edition, supplements Garnett's one.)
  • Lawrence, Thomas Edward. The Correspondence with Henry Williamson. Edited by Peter Wilson. Fordingbridge: Castle Hill Press, 2000.
  • Lawrence, Thomas Edward. Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw, 1922-1926. [T. E. Lawrence, Letters, volume I] Edited by Jeremy and Nicole Wilson. Fordingbridge: Castle Hill Press, 2000.
  • Lawrence, Thomas Edward. Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw, 1927. [T. E. Lawrence, Letters, volume II] Edited by Jeremy and Nicole Wilson. Fordingbridge: Castle Hill Press, 2003.

Biographies

Online Links

One of the best web-pages on any well-known personality are probably those by Lawrence-biographer Jeremy Wilson: indispensable even for those, who already know a lot about Lawrence. [1]