This is Lawrences recounting of his 1916-1918 Arab. Soon nicknamed “Prince Dynamite,” Lawrence showed himself to be - in the words of military historian B.H. Lawrence hunches over a lantern in an Ottoman-style house, penning his historic re-creation, Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph. Highly mobile fighters on camelback, he argued, could strike the enemy unexpectedly, then quickly disappear into the desert they knew so well. Surprisingly, the young Oxford graduate, not yet 30, first earned the trust of Feisal, then persuaded the Bedouins to adopt hit-and-run battle tactics. Because Lawrence had spent time on archaeological digs and could speak Arabic, he was commissioned as a liaison between the British army and the ragtag rebel forces. He reports that he was captured though not identified beaten and raped before escaping. At roughly the same time, Sharif Hussein ibn Ali inaugurated an independence movement - largely spearheaded by two of his sons, Ali and Feisal - to break free of Turkish domination. Mission to Deraa In his account of his role in the Arab Revolt, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Lawrence writes of an incognito reconnaissance mission from Akaba to Deraa, a Turkish supply base.
During World War I, the Ottoman Empire allied itself with Germany, which led Great Britain to send troops to the Middle East. If you’ve seen David Lean’s breathtaking film “ Lawrence of Arabia,” you already know the overall arc of the narrative.
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