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Based on four years of intensive primary document research, Lawrence in Arabia definitively overturns received wisdom on how the Modern Middle East was formed..
In early 1914 he was an archaeologist excavating ruins in Syria; by 1917 he was riding into legend at the head of an Arab army as he fought a rearguard action against his own government and its Imperial ambitions.
At the center of it all was Lawrence himself.
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.
Lawrence, a sideshow of a sideshow.
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