T.E. Lawrence: Biography of a Broken HeroMcFarland, 8 окт. 2002 г. - Всего страниц: 293 Lawrence of Arabia, as adviser to Prince Feisal, led camel-riding Bedouin in a guerrilla war against Turkey from Arabia to Damascus. The great British hero of World War I, he helped Winston Churchill draw the map of the modern Middle East, creating Jordan and making Feisal king of Iraq. Then, in 1922, he shed the rank of colonel and his name to serve as a private in the Royal Air Force until shortly before his death in 1935 at age 46. Lawrence has been characterized as a man with extraordinary powers and as an imposter who manufactured his own legend. This careful study, based on virtually all published and unpublished English-language sources, sides neither with Lawrence's eulogists nor with his denigrators. Presenting a fair, balanced picture of his life, it shows the lifelong continuity of his puzzling conduct: the often needless deviousness that troubled even close friends; the self-hatred and savage masochism that cursed his adult years. |
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Introduction | 1 |
Chronology of Lawrences Life Contents | 5 |
A Rocket Flared and Fell | 7 |
57 | 35 |
7 | 49 |
Life | 50 |
15 | 71 |
25 | 78 |
Childhood and Youth 18881907 | 243 |
College and the East 19081914 | 244 |
Undiplomatic Battles 19181922 | 246 |
In and Out of the RAF 1922 | 247 |
The Tank Corps 19231925 | 248 |
Back in the RAF 19251926 | 249 |
Seas and Shores 19291935 | 250 |
The Last Twelve Weeks 1935 | 252 |
41 | 80 |
54 | 81 |
61 | 82 |
69 | 84 |
Illegitimacy and Pseudonyms | 177 |
Sociable and Solitary | 186 |
Political Outlook | 195 |
My Name Is Legion | 202 |
Masochism and Sexuality | 218 |
Summing Up | 233 |
Body and Appearance | 253 |
Eating and Living Habits 13 Possessions and Finances | 254 |
Parents 15 Brothers | 257 |
Friends 111 | 259 |
118 | 262 |
122 | 265 |
Bibliography | 269 |
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