Seven pillars of wisdom

a triumph

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T. E. Lawrence, A. W. Lawrence, Eric Kennington, Augustus John, Sydney Carline: Seven pillars of wisdom (1940, J. Cape)

700 pages

English language

Published 1940 by J. Cape.

OCLC Number:
1013427442

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Seven Pillars of Wisdom is the autobiographical account of the experiences of British Army Colonel T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") while serving as a military advisor to Bedouin forces during the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire of 1916 to 1918. It was completed in February 1922, but first published in December 1926, originally published for the US market in 1927 as Revolt in the Desert and is the only version that was commercially released while he was alive. Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1935) is a longer form of the book at almost double the page count and released to the international market.

في كتابه الكلاسيكي ، T.E. يروي لورنس - المعروف إلى الأبد باسم لورنس العرب - دوره في أصل العالم العربي الحديث. في البداية كان باحث أكسفورد وعالم آثار خجولًا لديه مرفق للغات ، وانضم لقيادة الثورة العربية ضد الأتراك العثمانيين بينما كان العالم الآخر متورطًا …

29 editions

Subjects

  • World War, 1914-1918
  • Campaigns
  • Arabs
  • Bedouins
  • Wahhābīyah
  • Social life and customs
  • British Personal narratives
  • History
  • Soldiers
  • Biography

Places

  • Middle East
  • Arabian Peninsula
  • Arab countries
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Great Britain