Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson is now available for free ePub download or online reading.<\/p>\n
Intro:<\/strong><\/p>\n A thrilling and revelatory narrative of one of the most epic and consequential periods in 20th century history \u2013 the Arab Revolt and the secret \u201cgreat game\u201d to control the Middle East<\/b><\/p>\n The Arab Revolt against the Turks in World War One was, in the words of T.E. Lawrence, \u201ca sideshow of a sideshow.\u201d\u00a0 Amidst the slaughter in European trenches, the Western combatants paid scant attention to the Middle Eastern theater.\u00a0 As a result, the conflict was shaped to a remarkable degree by a small handful of adventurers and low-level officers far removed from the corridors of power.<\/p>\n Curt Pr\u00fcfer was an effete academic attached to the German embassy in Cairo, whose clandestine role was to foment Islamic jihad against British rule.\u00a0 Aaron Aaronsohn was a renowned agronomist and committed Zionist who gained the trust of the Ottoman governor of Syria. William Yale was the fallen scion of the American aristocracy, who traveled the Ottoman Empire on behalf of Standard Oil, dissembling to the Turks in order gain valuable oil concessions.\u00a0 At the center of it all was Lawrence.\u00a0 In early 1914 he was an archaeologist excavating ruins in the sands of Syria, by 1917 he was the most romantic figure of World War One, battling both the enemy and his own government to bring about the vision he had for the Arab people.<\/p>\n The intertwined paths of these four men \u2013 the schemes they put in place, the battles they fought, the betrayals they endured and committed \u2013 mirror the grandeur, intrigue and tragedy of the war in the desert.\u00a0 Pr\u00fcfer became Germany\u2019s grand spymaster in the Middle East.\u00a0 Aaronsohn constructed an elaborate Jewish spy-ring in Palestine, only to have the anti-Semitic and bureaucratically-inept British first ignore and then misuse his organization, at tragic personal cost.\u00a0 Yale would become the only American intelligence agent in the entire Middle East \u2013 while still secretly on the payroll of Standard Oil.\u00a0 And the enigmatic Lawrence rode into legend at the head of an Arab army, even as he waged secret war against his own nation\u2019s imperial ambitions.<\/p>\n Based on years of intensive primary document research, Lawrence in Arabia<\/em> definitively overturns received wisdom on how the modern Middle East was formed.\u00a0 Sweeping in its action, keen in its portraiture, acid in its condemnation of the destruction wrought by European colonial plots, this is a book that brilliantly captures the way in which the folly of the past creates the anguish of the present.. First published August 6, 2013. Original format: Hardcover. Pages: 577. #lawrence-in-arabia-ebook #lawrence-in-arabia-epub #read #download<\/p>\n User Rating: 4.07 (based on 15469 ratings)<\/p>\n Download EPUB Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson<\/strong><\/p>\n \ud83d\udcc1 File details: lawrence-in-arabia.epub<\/em><\/p>\n