T.E. Lawrence · 1926 · overland

T.E. Lawrence's 1926 memoir of the Arab Revolt, one of the great first-hand accounts of desert war. From a desk in Cairo he is flung into the Hejaz, where he binds himself to Feisal's Bedouin army and helps turn a scattering of tribes into a campaign: the audacious overland capture of Aqaba, the relentless raids on the Hejaz Railway, and the long march north to Damascus. The same ground as the film, told from the inside.

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   Cairo

   At British headquarters in Cairo, the young intelligence officer T.E. Lawrence is sent south to assess the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire.

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   Suez

   He crosses to Suez to take ship down the Red Sea toward the Hejaz and the army of Feisal.

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   Yenbo

   At the Red Sea port of Yenbo, Lawrence joins Feisal's tribesmen and casts his lot with the Arab cause.

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   Wejh

   The revolt moves north to Wejh, the advance base from which the campaign against the Hejaz Railway is launched.

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   Aqaba

   In the campaign's boldest stroke, Lawrence leads a march across the Nefud desert to take Aqaba from the landward side, where its guns could not turn.

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   Hejaz Railway

   From Aqaba the Arabs raid the Hejaz Railway again and again, blowing track and trains to strangle the Turkish garrisons.

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   Damascus

   The long push north ends at Damascus, entered ahead of the British, the prize and the heartbreak of the Arab Revolt.