272 “a devout Roman Catholic”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 193.

273 “There is nothing so bad or so good”:Shaw, Man of Destiny, 87.

274 “every aspect of the Arab question”:Wilson, Lawrence, 235.

274 “bravura”:Ibid., 235.

275 Picot was a master of detail:Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace, 190.

279 It was hoped that a French zone:Ibid., 192.

280 “the imaginative advocate”:Lawrence, SP, 38.

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

282 “I have not written to you for ever”:Lawrence, Letters from T. E. Lawrence to E. T. Leeds, 110.

283 “I’m fed up, and fed up”:Ibid., 109.

283 The Arab Bulletin was a secret news sheet:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 242.

283 The only one of them:Lawrence, Letters from T. E. Lawrence to E. T. Leeds, 109.

283 “to put the Grand Duke Nicholas in touch with”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 242.

285 The British Force in Egypt and the British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force:Ibid., 252.

286 “to biff the French out of Syria”:Knightley and Simpson, Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia, 81.

288 “go free on parole”:Aldington, Lawrence of Arabia, 149.

289 Lawrence arrived to undergo a difficult interview:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 268-269.

289 Although Khalil was “extremely nice”:Ibid., 272.

290 “about 32 or 33, very keen & energetic”:Lawrence, Home Letters, 326.

291 “a German field mission led by Baron Othmar von Stotzingen”:Antonius, The Arab Awakening, 191.

292 “pronging playfully at strangers”:Storrs, Orientations, 188.

293 “Long before we met”:Ibid., 221.

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297 if Clayton “thought”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 419.

297 “he wanted Jerusalem as a Christmas present”:Wavell, Palestine Campaigns, 96.

299 “an obstinate, narrow-minded”:Lawrence, SP, 351.

299 “gracious and venerable patriarch”:Storrs, Orientations, 213.

300 “as usual without obvious coherence”:Lawrence, SP, 352.

300 “half-naked”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 1079.

300 “in the third little turning to the left”:Ibid., 432.

302 “no spirit of treachery abroad”:Lawrence, SP, 353-355.

302 “Many men of sense and ability”:Arnold Lawrence (ed.), T. E. Lawrence by His Friends, 115.

302 “idle to pretend”:Ibid., 117.

305 “You very good man”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 441.

309 “a ladder of tribes”:Lawrence, SP, 367.

309 “tip and run” tactics:Ibid., 368.

311 It is a tribute to Lawrence’s skill:Ibid., 367-383.

312 “in a chilled voice”:Ibid., 387.

312 “a squadron of airplanes”:Ibid., 388.

313 “his best man present”:Ibid., 392.

313 “strange flat of yellow mud”:Ibid., 398.

317 “Out of the darkness”:Ibid., 407.

317 “a shambles of the group”:Ibid., 408.

320 “I hope when this nightmare ends”:Lawrence, Letters from T. E. Lawrence to E. T. Leeds, 106.

321 “He who gives himself to the possession”:Lawrence, SP, 11.

325 “African knobkerri”:Ibid., 429.

325 “on a series of identical steel bridges”:Ibid., 432.

326 “unfit for active service”:Ibid., 433.

329 “could outstrip a trotting camel”:Ibid.

330 “luscious”:Ibid., 447.

331 “They had lost two men”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 450-455.

331 “war, tribes and camels without end”:Lawrence, SP, 450.

331 “like the mutter of a distant”:Ibid., 450.

332 “Beware of Abd el Kader”:Ibid.

333 “held what might well be the world’s record”:Ibid., 453.

333 “some 40,000 troops of all arms”:Wavell, Palestine Campaigns, 117.

333 “dismounted and cleaned up”:Ibid., 123.

334 “General Allenby’s plan”:Ibid.

334 “nothing would persuade”:Lawrence, SP, 462.

334 “steeped in an unfathomable pool”:Ibid., 464.

335 “I only hope TEL”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 455, citingD. G. Hogarth to his wife, November 11, 1917, Hogarth Papers, St. Antony’s College, Oxford.

336 The fumes from the explosive:Lawrence, SP, 471.

338 “pointing and staring”:Ibid., 478.

339 “ran like a rabbit”:Ibid., 481.

339 “in front of [him]”:Ibid., 483.

340 “gashing his tongue deeply”:Ibid., 485.

340 he searched for consolation:Knightley and Simpson, Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia, 263.

341 “an outlaw with a price”:Lawrence, SP, 493.

341 “a trimmed beard”:Ibid.

342 “a lame and draggled pair”:Ibid., 495.

343 “The garrison commander at Deraa”:Knightley and Simpson, Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia, 217.

344 “They kicked me to the landing”:Lawrence, SP, 498-502.

349 “About that night”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 739; T. E. Lawrence to Charlotte Shaw, March 26, 1924, British Library, London, Add. MS 45903.

351 “he seemed like a wraith”:Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia, 293.

352 “the most memorable event of the war”: Lawrence, SP, 508.

352 “all institutions holy to Christians”:Adelson, Mark Sykes, 245.

353 “had stuck another medal”:Lawrence, Home Letters, 345.

354 “seated at the same table”:Thomas, With Lawrence in Arabia, 3-6.

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355 “Two names had come to dominate”:Storrs, Orientations,318.

356 “When he was in the middle of the stage”:Arnold Lawrence (ed.), T. E. Lawrence by His Friends, 245.

358 “twenty thousand pounds alive”:Lawrence, SP, 520.

358 “hard riders”:Ibid., 526.

358 “The British at Aqaba”:Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia, 207-208.

358 He also used his bodyguard as shock troops:Ibid., 209.

359 “almost level with the south end”:Ibid., 210.

360 “simultaneously from the east”:Lawrence, SP, 513.

360 “an amnesty for the Arab Revolt”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 469.

361 “Jam Catholics on the Holy Places”:Ibid., 467, from Sir T. B. M. Sykes to Sir F. R. Wingate, for G. F. Clayton, telegram 75, 16.1.1918. FO 371/3383 fo. 14.

361 Lawrence spent the early days of January:Ibid., 475.

362 “neither my impulses nor my convictions”:Lawrence, SP, 529.

362 “let our man go free”:Ibid.

363 “I had not expected anything”:Ibid., 530.

364 The Turkish garrison:Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia, 214.

365 “The defences of Tafila”:Ibid.

365 “three… battalions of infantry”:Ibid., 215.

366 “To make war upon rebellion”:Ibid., 135.

366 “There is nothing I desire”:Ibid., 133.

368 “rushed to save their goods”:Lawrence, SP, 538.

368 “I would rake up all the old maxims”:Ibid., 539.

370 Not many officers:Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia, 217.

370 “the climb would warm me”: Army Quarterly,Vol. II, no. 1, April 1929, 26.

371 “The bullets slapped off it deafeningly”:Ibid., 28.

372 “a Damascene, a sardonic fellow”:Lawrence, SP, 149.

373 “in the purest classical tradition”:Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia,382, 384.

373 “In the end”: Army Quarterly,Vol. II, no. 1, April 1929, 30.