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This book is so well written i enjoyed it for the quality of the prose as much as the subject
He chaim weizmann had to work with the support and opposition of aaron aaronson brilliant agronomist surprisingly effective spy... Read More
There are occasional problems with the narrative
It is a remarkably well constructed riveting narrative juxtaposing three other characters with the legendary man to enrich our perspective
Packaging/appearance
Passages of quite dreadful horror but always a clear attempt to pull the facts out of the morass
No punches are pulled this is not a hagiography of lawrence and no party comes out of the sorry mess with credit
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- This product had a total of 1,700 reviews as of our last analysis date on Feb 17 2021.
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The subtitle says it all war deceit imperial folly and the making of the modern middle east
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The ottomans in turkey the french the russians but above all the british were being as devious as they were violent and often incompetent in the fighting
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Long before the war was won britain was negotiating the distribution of the arab territories the ottomans would lose if they were beaten
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They promised the arabs a single unified independent arab nation extending from the bottom of the arabian peninsula to the borders of presentday turkey
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And the seeds were sown of the terrible conflicts that beset the region to this day
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In particular he focuses on four extraordinary characters t e lawrence the man we’ve come to know as ‘lawrence of arabia’ and who is the lawrence of the book’s main title
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He chaim weizmann had to work with the support and opposition of aaron aaronson brilliant agronomist surprisingly effective spy and a zionist who slipped into the racist thinking that taints israel today at its worst
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And there was even an american william yale – and yes the name comes from the family that founded the university – an oilman and spy working first for middle eastern interests of the standard oil of new york but later for the us state department
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