attack on, 278–9, 279–81

bridge at, 326–7

Tennyson, Alfred Lord, 28

Thesiger, Wilfred

on homosexuality, 233–4

on cruelty, 332

Thomas, Lowell, 241, 354

lecturing on Lawrence, 351–2

Tigris Corps, 147

Towayha, as raiders, 226–7

Townshend, Major-General Sir

Charles, 143, 148

Trenchard, Lord, 359, 360

as father-figure, 14

Tuke, Henry Scott, 26, 33

Turkey, coup d’йtat in, 49

Twenty-Seven Articles(Lawrence), 208

al-‘Ula, assault on, 229 ‘Umayyads, 53

Umm Surab, 327

Umm Tayeh, 322, 323

Uranians, 26, 233

Urfa, 69–71

‘Utayba, 154

Vehib Bey, 124, 136

vengeance, Bedu and, 154

Vickery, Major Charles, 199, 201–2

and capture of Aqaba, 228

Victoria Cross, 247

Vilayet system, 123–4

von Stotzingen, Baron Othmar, 157

Wadi ‘Ais, 204–25

Wadi Hafira, 273

Wadi Hamdh, 204–25

Wadi Ithm, 118

Wadi Khitan, shooting at, 211–14

Wadi Musa, 299

Wadi Rum, Lawrence at, 265

Wadi Safra, capture of, 191

Wahid, Haj, 81, 92, 93, 94, 97, 104–5

and malaria, 101

Wasta, 180

Wavell, A.P., 298

Wejh, 189–203

Wemyss, Admiral, 189–90, 199, 202

‘White Man’s Burden’, 86, 112

White, Stephen, 287

Who’s Who, Lawrence in, 352

Wilde, Oscar, 26–7

Wilderness of Zin, The(Lawrence and

Woolley), 122

will-power, 16

Williams, A.T.P., 42, 46

Williamson, Henry, 375, 376

Wilson, Lieutenant-Colonel Cyril, 165, 168–70

and attack on Aqaba, 231

Wilson, Jeremy, 76, 291, 296

rape at Dara’a and, 297–8

Wilson, President, 345

Wingate, Sir Reginald, 133, 159, 165, 189–90

Winterton, Lord, 319, 328–9

With Lawrence in Arabia(Thomas), 372

Wood, Lieutenant, 277

Wool Hospital, 377

Woolley, Leonard, 39, 84, 86, 95–6, 105, 106, 115, 121, 132, 138, 208

as director at Carchemish, 93

at Birejik, 100

Yahya, Imam, 136

Yanbu’, and Wejh, 189–203

Yarmuk operation, and Dara’a

incident, 273–98

Yeats-Brown, Francis, 37

Yells, Sergeant, 264, 269, 270–71, 271

Young Turks’ revolution, 49–54

Young, Captain Hubert, 111, 145, 162, 292, 297

lying and truth about, 288

as understudy of Lawrence, 315

quarrel with Lawrence, 316, 322, 324

and train explosions, 326

and honours, 343

Younghusband, General, 147

Zaki Bey, 183

Zakkari, Ahmad, 121

Zayd, Sharif, 164–5, 191, 300, 306–7, 344

CONTENTS

List of Plates

List of Maps

Introduction: The Valley of the Moon

PART ONE: THE WANDERER, 1888–1916

1. Apparent Queen Unveiled Her Peerless Light

2. Dominus Illuminatio Mea

3. Nothing Which Qualified Him to be an Ordinary Member of Society

4. The Sultan Drank Tea as Usual

5. A Rather Remarkable Young Man

6. Mr Hogarth is Going Digging

7. The Baron in the Feudal System

8. Peace in Mesopotamia Such as Has Not Been Seen for Generations

9. The Insurance People Have Nailed Me Down

10. Cairo is Unutterable Things

PART TWO: THE WARRIOR, 1916–1918

11. The Biggest Thing in the Near East Since 1550

12. Fallen Like a Sword into Their Midst

13. Not an Army But a World is Moving upon Wejh

14. I Do Not Suppose Any Englishman Before Ever Had Such a Place

15. It is Not Known What are the Present Whereabouts of Captain Lawrence

16. An Amateurish Buffalo-Billy Sort of Performance

17. Ahmad ibn Baqr, a Circassian from Qunaytra

18. The Most Ghastly Material to Build into a Design

19. My Dreams Puffed out Like Candles in the Strong Wind of Success

PART THREE :THE MAGICIAN, 1918–1935

20. Colonel Lawrence Still Goes on; Only I Have Stepped Out of the Way

21. In Speed We Hurl Ourselves Beyond the Body

Acknowledgements

Notes on the Text

Bibliography

Index

LIST OF PLATES

COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHS

Photography by Mariantonietta Peru

1. Lawrence’s Spring, Jordan

2. Pharaoh’s Island, off Sinai

3. Ruins of a traditional house, Yanbu’, Saudi Arabia

4. Ruins of mud houses, Hamra village, Saudi Arabia

5. Fallen locomotive, Hediyya station, Saudi Arabia

6. Hediyya bridge

7. Guweira plain from the Nagb ash-Shtar pass, Jordan

8. Atwi station, Jordan

9. Tent in the Wadi Rum, Jordan

10. Howaytat woman, Wadi Rum

11. The author with Sabah ibn ‘Iid at Mudowwara well, Jordan

12. Loading a camel, Mudowwara well, Jordan

13. Wrecked railway wagon, Mudowwara

14. Bedui filling a waterskin

15. Bedui of the Haywat, Jordan

BLACK AND WHITE

1. T. E. Lawrence aged about ten or eleven, a studio photograph in Oxford, c.1900

2. Sarah Lawrence with her children, in the porch of their home at Fawley, c.1894

3. The City of Oxford High School for Boys. Lawrence surrounded by his form mates and their teacher, c.1900

4. Portrait of Grayby Henry Scott Tuke

5. In the summer of 1909 Lawrence visited Kala’at al-Husn (Crak des Chevaliers)

6. The castle of Sahyun

7. The Norman keep at Safita, and Harran

8. Lawrence with Leonard Woolley at Carchemish

9. Carchemish

10. Salim Ahmad, nicknamed Dahoum, and Sheikh Hammoudi at Carchemish, 1911

11. Workmen at Carchemish, 1911

12. Lawrence in Arab dress

13. Lieut-Col. Stewart Newcombe, Royal Engineers

14. Camels, as ridden by Lawrence

15. Sharif ‘Abdallah and Ronald Storrs at Jeddah, October 1916

16. Sharif Feisal’s army falling back on Yanbu’ on the coast of the Red Sea, December 1916

17. Feisal’s camp at dawn, December 1916

18 and 19. Feisal and his army captured Wejh in January 1917 and made it their headquarters for the next six months

20. Auda Abu Tayyi and his kinsmen, photographed by Lawrence in May 1917

21. Auda and Sharif Nasir at Wadi Sirhan, June 1917

22. Mohammad adh-Dhaylan with other Howaytat tribesmen

23. A Turkish patrol repairing a stretch of railway track near Ma’an

24. The bridge at Tel ash-Shehab

25. Nasib al-Bakri, one of the founders of the Arab Revolt

26. Dakhilallah al-Qadi, hereditary law-giver of the Juhayna

27. The capture of Aqaba, 6 July 1917, photographed by Lawrence

28. Aqaba fort from inland

29. The interior of Aqaba fort

30. Ja’afar Pasha, Feisal and Pierce Joyce at Wadi Quntilla, August 1917

31. Nuri as-Sa’id

32. The gate tower at Azraq

33. Turkish prisoners near Tafilah fort, January 1918

34. Sharif Zayd and other Arab leaders with captured Austrian guns at Tafilah

35. Lawrence at the army headquarters in Cairo, 1918

36. General Allenby stepping out of his armoured car in Damascus, 3 October 1918

37. The Hejaz Camel Corps rounding up Bedouin pillagers after the capture of Damascus, 2 October 1918

38. Lawrence by Augustus John, 1919

39. Feisal, photographed at the same time

40. Gertrude Bell, Sir Herbert Samuel, Lawrence and Sharif ‘Abdallah in 41. Amman, April 1921

41. Lawrence by William Roberts, 1922

42. Lawrence as Private T. E. Shaw of the Royal Tank Corps.

43. Lawrence’s 1000cc Brough Superior motorcycle

44. The music room at Clouds Hill

45. Lawrence’s funeral at Moreton church in Dorset

46. Lawrence’s effigy in the old Anglo-Saxon church of St Martin at Wareham in Dorset

ILLUSTRATION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The author and publishers are grateful to the following for permission to reproduce black and white photographs:

The Lawrence Estate and the Bodleian Library, Oxford, for nos. 1, 2, 3, 42, 43

The Trustees of the Imperial War Museum, London, for nos. 8–20, 22–24, 26–34, 36, 37, 40

The National Trust Photographic Library for no. 4

The Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King’s College, London, for nos. 5, 6, 7, 21, 25, 35, 39, 44

St Martin’s, Wareham, for no. 46 (both photographs)

The National Portrait Gallery, London, for no. 38

The Visitors of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, for no. 41

LIST OF MAPS

1. General map of Greater Syria in 1909

2. Hejaz Operations, 1916-17

3. Syrian Operations, 1917-18

4. Medina, 1916