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050	0	0	_aD 568.4 .L45 A66 2013
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100	1		_aAnderson, Scott, _d1959-
245	1	0	_aLawrence in Arabia : _bwar, deceit, imperial folly and the making of the modern Middle East / _cScott Anderson.
250			_aFirst Edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bDoubleday, _c2013.
300			_axii, 577 pages ; _billustrations, maps ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
500			_aMaps on lining papers.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 543-552) and index.
505	0		_aPlayboys in the holy land -- A very unusual type -- Another and another nice thing -- To the last million -- A despicable mess -- The keepers of secrets -- Treachery -- The battle joined -- The man who would be kingmaker -- Neatly in the void -- A mist of deceits -- An audacious scheme -- Aqaba -- Hubris -- To the flame -- A gathering fury -- Solitary pursuits -- Damascus -- Paris.
520			_aA narrative chronicle of World War I's Arab Revolt explores the pivotal roles of a small group of adventurers and low-level officers who orchestrated a secret effort to control the Middle East, demonstrating how they instigated jihad against British forces, built an elaborate intelligence ring and forged ties to gain valuable oil concessions. This is a narrative of one of the most epic and consequential periods in 20th century history, the Arab Revolt and the secret "great game " to control the Middle East. The Arab Revolt against the Turks in World War I was, in the words of T.E. Lawrence, "a sideshow of a sideshow." Amidst the slaughter in European trenches, the Western combatants paid scant attention to the Middle Eastern theater. 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. Curt Prufer was an effete academic attached to the German embassy in Cairo, whose clandestine role was to foment Islamic jihad against British rule. Aaron Aaronsohn was a renowned agronomist and committed Zionist who gained the trust of the Ottoman governor of Syria. William Yale was the fallen scion of the American aristocracy, who traveled the Ottoman Empire on behalf of Standard Oil, dissembling to the Turks in order to gain valuable oil concessions. At the center of it all was Lawrence. In early 1914 he was an archaeologist excavating ruins in the sands of Syria; by 1917 he was the most romantic figure of World War One, battling both the enemy and his own government to bring about the vision he had for the Arab people. The intertwined paths of these four men, the schemes they put in place, the battles they fought, the betrayals they endured and committed, mirror the grandeur, intrigue and tragedy of the war in the desert. Prufer became Germany's grand spymaster in the Middle East. Aaronsohn constructed an elaborate Jewish spy-ring in Palestine, only to have the anti-Semitic and bureaucratically-inept British first ignore and then misuse his organization, at tragic personal cost. Yale would become the only American intelligence agent in the entire Middle East, while still secretly on the payroll of Standard Oil. And the enigmatic Lawrence rode into legend at the head of an Arab army, even as he waged secret war against his own nation's imperial ambitions. Based on years of intensive primary document research, this work definitively overturns received wisdom on how the modern Middle East was formed. It condemns the destruction wrought by European colonial plots, and captures the way in which the folly of the past creates the anguish of the present. -- From book jacket.
600	1	0	_aLawrence, T. E. _q(Thomas Edward), _d1888-1935.
650		0	_aWorld War, 1914-1918 _xCampaigns _zMiddle East.
650		0	_aWorld War, 1914-1918 _xCampaigns _zTurkey.
651		0	_aMiddle East _xHistory _y1914-1923.
650		0	_aSoldiers _zGreat Britain _vBiography.
610	1	0	_aGreat Britain. _bArmy _vBiography.
600	1	4	_aLawrence, T.E. _q(Thomas Edward), _d1888-1935.
610	2	4	_aGreat Britain. _bArmy.
650	1	7	_aEerste Wereldoorlog. _2gtt
650	1	7	_aArabieren. _2gtt
650	1	7	_aOpstanden. _2gtt
651		7	_aMidden-Oosten. _2gtt
651		7	_aVerenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittanni�e en Noord-Ierland. _2gtt
600	1	7	_aLawrence, Thomas E., _d1888-1935. _0(DE-588)118570366 _2gnd
650		7	_aWeltkrieg. _0(DE-588)4079163-4 _2gnd
651		7	_aArabien. _0(DE-588)4002529-9 _2gnd
600	1	7	_aLawrence, T. E. _q(Thomas Edward), _d1888-1935. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00041713
610	1	7	_aGreat Britain. _bArmy. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00533555
611	2	7	_aWorld War (1914-1918) _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01180746
650		7	_aMilitary campaigns. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01710190
650		7	_aSoldiers. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01125233
651		7	_aGreat Britain. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01204623
651		7	_aMiddle East. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01241586
651		7	_aTurkey. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01208963
648		7	_a1914 - 1923 _2fast
655		7	_aBiography. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01423686
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