444 “under the control” of Feisal:Ibid., 575.

445 “chafed at”:Graves and Liddell Hart (eds.), T. E. Lawrence to His Biographers, 108.

448 “He explained personally”:Ibid., 106.

448 “if a man has to serve”:Ibid., 107.

450 “rather taken aback”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 578.

450 “he had made certain promises”:Graves and Liddell Hart (eds.), T. E. Lawrence to His Biographers, 107.

451 “if it is behind a British”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 579.

452 “He wore his Arab robes”:Winston Churchill, Great Contemporaries, 157.

452 “conversations about the Arabs”:Ibid., 581. 455 “Without in the least wishing”:Ibid., 585.

455 “historic duty towards the peoples of Syria”:Ibid., 584.

456 “You do not want to divide the loot”:MacMillan, Paris 1919, 386.

456 “it was essential that Feisal”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 586.

458 “evilgenius”:MacMillan, Paris 1919, 389.

458 “You must be quite candid”:Aldington, Lawrence of Arabia, 256.

460 As the two leaders stood together:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 589;Rose, Chaim Weizmann, 199.

461 Curzon spoke scathingly:Ibid., 590.

461 “incessant friction”:Ibid., 591.

462 “but we must not put the knife”:Ibid.

462 “a member of Feisal’s staff”:Ibid., 592.

462 Thus Lawrence was placed:Ibid., 410.

462 “We lived many lives”:Lawrence, SP, 6

463 “like a choir boy”:General Йdouard Brйmond, Le Hedjaz dans la Guerre Mondiale, 317, quoted in Aldington, Lawrence of Arabia, 257.

463 “civic functions”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 593.

467 “If the Arabs are established”:Weizmann, Letters and Papers, Vol. IX, Series A, reproduced images between 86 and 87.

467 “ ‘He’ll say that he doesn’t’”:Quoted in Knightley and Simpson, Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia, 120.

468 “the Great Powers”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 597.

470 “red weals on his ribs”:Meinertzhagen, Middle East Diary, 52.

470 “a silent, masterful man”:Lawrence, SP, 429.

470 “his mind”:Meinertzhagen, Middle East Diary, 39.

471 “There is nothing funny about toilet paper”:Ibid., 40.

471 “the most picturesque”:Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 264.

471 “He has been described”:Shotwell, At the Paris Peace Conference, 231.

473 “in flowing robes of dazzling white”:Lloyd George, Memoirs of the Peace Conference, Vol. II, 673.

473 with a curved gold dagger:MacMillan, Paris 1919, 291.

474 “President Wilson then made a suggestion”:Toynbee, quoted in Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 267.

474 “When he came to the end”:Toynbee, Acquaintances, 182-183.

475 “What did you get that fellow”:MacMillan, Paris 1919, 391.

475 “Poor Lawrence”:Alexander Mihailovitj, Nar Jag Var Storfuste Av Ryssland,314-315, trans. Gunilla Jainchill, quoted in Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder,268.

475 “the lines of resentment”:Nicolson, Peace Making, 142.

476 Wilson also turned down all suggestions:Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 269.

477 “control of personal feelings”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 610.

477 fifty big Handley-Page bombers:Ibid., 611.

478 “a second Gordon”:Ibid., 608.

479 proclaimed him “Lawrence of Arabia”:Ibid., 622.

480 The show included not only the film:Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 274-275.

481 “summoned Mr. and Mrs. Thomas”: London Times, November 20, 1919.

483 “Wouldn’t it be fun”:Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 271.

485 “the antiquities and ethnology”:Ibid., 277.

485 “our troubles with the French”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 617.

485 “that Lawrence will never be employed”:Ibid.

485 “Colonel Lawrence has no Military status”:NA General Staff WO M.I.2. B, July 21, 1919.

485 “I have tried again and again”:NA LA 1107, December 5, 1919.

487 “use his influence with Feisal”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 621.

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490 “it might trouble him”:Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 481.

491 a terrible “row”:Ibid.

491 “bear a brave face”:Lawrence, Home Letters, 304.

491 At times he broke out of his depression:Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 287.

493 “Bow Street was jammed”:Lowell Thomas to “Ronnie,” March 29, 1956, Lowell Thomas Papers, Marist College.

493 “he would blush crimson”:Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 276.

493 “Thomas Lawrence, the archaeologist”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 624.

494 “In the history of the world”:Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 287.

495 “Colonel C. E. Florence”:Aldington, Lawrence of Arabia, 352.

496 The truth is quite simple:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 627.

496 an “official” one:Ibid.

497 “95% of the book in thirty days”:Ibid., 628.

497 At one point he wrote 30,000 words:Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 84.

499 “flying suit”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 629.

500 “the book had now assumed”:Ibid., 630.

501 “boy-scout”:Ibid., 635.

501 Among the dozen or so alternative ideas:Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 284.

502 His scholarship from All Souls:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 637.

502 Thomas Lawrence had left:Ibid., 637-638.

503 Perhaps because he had overestimated:Ibid., 637.

503 Neither Will nor Frank had lived:Ibid., 637-638.

504 make him look “silly”:Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 65.

504 This did not prevent him from buying rare:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 641.

505 “too sparsely peopled”:Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 291.

505 “learning opportunities”:Ibid., 634.

506 “one never knows how many”:Storrs, Orientations, 505.

506 Far from being extreme:Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 293.

507 Some idea of the aura of celebrity:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 633.

509 “to relieve Curzon”:Graves and Liddell Hart (eds.), T. E. Lawrence to His Biographers, 354.

510 he had “a virgin mind”:Young, The Independent Arab, 324.

511 Churchill’s omnipresent private secretary:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 643.

511 Though it was not appreciated at the time:Ibid., 644.

513 “little Lawrence”:Meinertzhagen, Middle East Diary, 55-56.

513 Lawrence became a civil servant:Graves and Liddell Hart (eds.), T. E. Lawrence to His Biographers, 143.

513 “Talk of leaving things”:Ibid.

514 “You must take risks”:Ibid.

515 “Lawrence can bear comparison”:Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia, 384.

515 “Our most trusted”:Graves and Liddell Hart (eds.), T. E. Lawrence to His Biographers, 131.

517 The western border with Syria:Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace, 503.

518 “with 30 officers and 200 Bedouins”:Ibid., 504.

518 “living with Abdulla”:Lawrence, Letters, Brown (ed.), 197.

518 “suspicious of his influence”:Abdullah, Memoirs, 170.

518 “He was certainly a strange character”:Ibid., 170-171.