28 “schoolboy stuff”:Ibid., 128.

30 “a garrulous old man”:Lawrence, SP, 70.

30 “had been beaten out of Kheif”:Ibid.

32 “standing framed between the posts”:Ibid., 75.

32 “almost regal in appearance”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 312.

33 “Ifelt at the glance”:Lawrence, SP, 75-76. 33 “which were twisting slowly”: Ibid., 76.

33 “And do you like our place”:Ibid.

33 “like a sword into their midst”:Ibid.

36 “a desperate measure”:Ibid., 77.

37 “if their villages were spared”:Ibid., 78.

38 “They hunger… for desolate lands”:Ibid.

39 “view with favour the establishment”:Knightley and Simpson, Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia, 117.

42 “huge crags”:Lawrence, SP, 95.

42 “glassy sand mixed”:Ibid., 96.

43 “a salt wind”:Ibid.

43 “picturesque, rambling house”:Ibid., 97.

43 “travel-stained”:Ibid.

45 “cool and comfortable”:Ibid., 99.

45 spent his time reading Malory’sMorte d’Arthur: Ibid.

48 hope “to biff the French:”Knightley and Simpson, Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia, 81.

49 was much against my grain”:Lawrence, SP, 103.

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51 “sacrament”:Lawrence, SP, 104.

53 “that invariable magnet of Arab good will”:Ibid., 112.

54 “to slip in and out”:Ibid., 114.

55 “Part of our booty”: Journal of the T. E. Lawrence Society,Vols. 10-12, 9 (2000).

56 “Twenty-Seven Articles”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 670.

56 “a magnificent bay camel”:Lawrence, SP, 117.

56 “as a mass they are notformidable”:Lawrence, Letters,Garnett (ed.), 217.

57 “Guerrilla warfare is what the regular armies”:Callwell, Small Wars, 105.

57 “old rubbish”:Lawrence, SP, 118.

58 “quiet, but in no other way mortified”:Ibid., 117.

58 “While all goes well”:Callwell, Small Wars, 66.

59 “and stamp out Feisal’s army”:Lawrence, SP, 121.

60 “the military art was one”:Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia, 370.

62 “It looked like a river of camels”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 349.

66 “Our men were not materials”:Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 211.

68 “a tall, strong figure”:Lawrence, SP, 229.

72 “feeling that this need not”:Ibid., 184.

72 “and gave him a few moments’ delay”:Ibid., 185.

73 “with the reckless equality”:Ibid., 188.

74 “suffering a bodily weakness”:Ibid., 191.

74 “woke out of a hot sleep”:Ibid., 192.

78 “The cold was intense”:Ibid., 212.

80 “I was about to take my leave”:Ibid., 229.

82 “venture… in the true Elizabethan tradition”:Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia, 143.

82 “to capture a trench”:Ibid.

83 “The weight is bearing me down now”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 406.

86 “surly… stranger from Maan”:Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia, 146.

90 “Clayton, I’ve decided to go off alone”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 410.

90 “Hideously green, unbearable”:Ibid.

91 “he was very old, livid”:Ibid., 413.

92 “quarrelling”:Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia, 154.

95 “A man who gives himself”:Lawrence, SP, 11

98 “Our hot bread”:Ibid., 323.

99 “By God indeed”:Ibid., 325.

100 “Work, work, where are words?”:Ibid., 328.

100 “when it became clear”:Ibid., 330.

101 “The dead men”:Ibid., 331.

109 He walked past the sleeping sentry: Ibid., 347.

110 “Allenby was physically large”:Ibid., 348.

110 “He [Lawrence] thinks himself”:Aldington, Lawrence of Arabia, 34.

110 “offering to hobble the enemy”:Lawrence, SP, 348.

112 “a bumptious young ass”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 331.

112 Wingate praised Lawrence: Ibid., 424.

113 “Tell Mother”:Lawrence, Home Letters, 340.

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115 “To my sons”:Item MS English C6741, Special Collections and Western Manuscripts, Thomas E. Lawrence Papers, Bodleian Library, Oxford University; Orlans, Harold, “Ways of Transgressors,” Journal of the T. E. Lawrence Society,Vol. 6, 120-33.

120 Thomas Robert Tighe Chapman:See Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder,5-8; and Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia,30-31, 941-944.

121 “the Vinegar Queen”:Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 4.

122 Sarah Lawrence:Ibid., 8-11; and Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia,31-32, 942-943.

123 Sometime in 1885:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia,943.

123 “so gay and pretty”:Journal of T. E. Lawrence Society,Vols. 10-12, 29.

123 “was the sort of woman”:Asher, Lawrence, 7.

124 “T. E. got his firm chin”:Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 33.

124 “No trust ever existed”:Ibid., 32.

128 “a real love match”:Ibid., 13.

129 “overpowering and terrifying”:Ibid., 8.

135 As in most English families: Ibid., 19.

135 “quiet authority”:Ibid., 13.

138 “he knew no fear”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 25.

Lawrence claimed to have overheard:Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 27.

“a playground scuffle”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 27.

141 “was placed in the First Class”:Ibid.

141 Oxford was a good place: Ibid., 28.

144 His father—whose closest friend: Ibid., 30.

147 “a house telephone”:Aldington, Lawrence of Arabia, 44.

152 “When… I suddenly went to Oxford”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 41.

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155 “as if he descended”:Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 62.

157 “Quite frankly, for me”:Knightley and Simpson, Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia, 29.

158 At the time he met Richards:Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 60.

159 His youngest brother, Arnold:Ibid., 67.

159 “I’m not a boy”:Ibid., 20.

159 “We could never be bothered”:Aldington, Lawrence of Arabia, 36.

160 “He is illuminated from inside”:Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 14.

160 She saw him as a beloved:Ibid., 64.

161 “worshipped Janet from afar”:Ibid., 66.

162 His mother vigorously denied:Aldington, Lawrence of Arabia, 46.

162 One friend told of Lawrence’s:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 44.

162 Lawrence’s nearly drowning:Aldington, Lawrence of Arabia, 48.

162 A famous feat of Lawrence’s:Ibid., 49.

163 It was also clear to Lawrence:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 44.

166 In Doughty’s opinion:Ibid., 54.

167 “a lightweight suit”:Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 69.

167 “a revolver”:Aldington, Lawrence of Arabia, 62.

171 “From Dan we passed”:Lawrence, Home Letters, 97.

172 “quite cool”:Ibid., 89.

172 “Nothing in life is more exhilarating”:Churchill, Story of the Malakind Field Force, 172.

173 “a person with nothing”:Lawrence, Home Letters, 107.

174 “Sir John does not like”: Ibid., 109.

174 “village elders”:Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 74.

174 The robbery has caused:Aldington, Lawrence of Arabia, 76.

175 he apologized for the bloodstain:Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 74.