Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia (105 page)

344
“They kicked me to the landing”:
Lawrence, SP, 498-502.

349
“About that night”:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia
, 739; T. E. Lawrence to Charlotte Shaw, March 26, 1924, British Library, London, Add. MS 45903.

351
“he seemed like a wraith”:
Liddell Hart,
Lawrence of Arabia, 293.

352
“the most memorable event of the war”:
Lawrence, SP, 508.

352
“all institutions holy to Christians”:
Adelson,
Mark Sykes, 245.

353
“had stuck another medal”:
Lawrence,
Home Letters, 345.

354
“seated at the same table”:
Thomas,
With Lawrence in Arabia, 3-6.

chapter eight
1918: Triumph and Tragedy

355
“Two names had come to dominate”:
Storrs,
Orientations,
318.

356
“When he was in the middle of the stage”:
Arnold Lawrence (ed.),
T. E. Lawrence by His Friends, 245.

358
“twenty thousand pounds alive”:
Lawrence, SP, 520.

358
“hard riders”:
Ibid., 526.

358
“The British at Aqaba”:
Liddell Hart,
Lawrence of Arabia, 207-208.

358
He also used his bodyguard as shock troops:
Ibid., 209.

359
“almost level with the south end”:
Ibid., 210.

360
“simultaneously from the east”:
Lawrence, SP, 513.

360
“an amnesty for the Arab Revolt”:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia, 469.

361
“Jam Catholics on the Holy Places”:
Ibid., 467, from Sir T. B. M. Sykes to Sir F. R. Wingate, for G. F. Clayton, telegram 75, 16.1.1918. FO 371/3383 fo. 14.

361
Lawrence spent the early days of January:
Ibid., 475.

362
“neither my impulses nor my convictions”:
Lawrence, SP, 529.

362
“let our man go free”:
Ibid.

363
“I had not expected anything”:
Ibid., 530.

364
The Turkish garrison:
Liddell Hart,
Lawrence of Arabia, 214.

365
“The defences of Tafila”:
Ibid.

365
“three… battalions of infantry”:
Ibid., 215.

366
“To make war upon rebellion”:
Ibid., 135.

366
“There is nothing I desire”:
Ibid., 133.

368
“rushed to save their goods”:
Lawrence, SP, 538.

368
“I would rake up all the old maxims”:
Ibid., 539.

370
Not many officers:
Liddell Hart,
Lawrence of Arabia, 217.

370
“the climb would warm me”:
Army Quarterly,
Vol. II, no. 1, April 1929, 26.

371
“The bullets slapped off it deafeningly”:
Ibid., 28.

372
“a Damascene, a sardonic fellow”:
Lawrence, SP, 149.

373
“in the purest classical tradition”:
Liddell Hart,
Lawrence of Arabia,
382, 384.

373
“In the end”: Army Quarterly,
Vol. II, no. 1, April 1929, 30.

373
Arab losses were about twenty-five killed:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia, 476.

374
As was so often the case with Lawrence:
Liddell Hart,
Lawrence of Arabia, 220.

374
“brilliant mind”:
Lawrence, SP, 579.

375
“the complete ruin of my plans”:
Ibid., 568.

376
“will was gone”:
Ibid., 572.

376
“that pretence to lead the national uprising”:
Ibid., 571.

376
“made a mess of things”:
Ibid.

377
“a very sick man”:
Liddell Hart,
Lawrence of Arabia, 233.

377
“a cog himself”:
Ibid.

377
“solitary in the ranks”:
Title of a book by H. Montgomery Hyde,
Solitary in the Ranks:
Lawrence of Arabia as Airman and Private Soldier
(London: Constable, 1977).

378
“letting[him] off”:
Lawrence, SP, 752.

379
“to knock Turkey out of the war”:
Liddell Hart,
Lawrence of Arabia, 224.

379
In the end all he would get:
Ibid.

379
“to take up again my mantle”:
Lawrence, SP, 572.

379
“where the Arabs would easily defeat [them]”:
Liddell Hart,
Lawrence of Arabia, 227.

380
“between pincers”:
Ibid.

380
“that skirt-wearers”:
Lawrence, SP, 574.

381
“reeling backwards on Amiens”:
Wavell,
Palestine Campaigns
, 183.

382
Lawrence’s “understudy”:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia, 491.

382
“Lawrence really counted more”:
Young,
The Independent Arab
, 143, quoted in Wilson,
Lawrence, 491.

384
“the Grand Cross of the Order”:
Thomas, With
Lawrence in Arabia, 391.

384
“[sailed] fifteen hundred miles”:
Ibid., 111.

384
“Hindus, Somalis, Berberines”:
Ibid., 118.

384
“was kicked overboard”:
Ibid., 120.

384
“Lawrence himself came down”:
Ibid., 121.

385
“To accompany Lawrence and his body-guard”:
Ibid., 183.

386
“was never in the Arab firing line”:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia,
494, from T. E. Lawrence to E. M. Forster, June 17, 1925, King’s College, Cambridge.

386
“My cameraman, Mr. Chase”:
Thomas,
With Lawrence in Arabia, 369.

387
“the rose-red city”:
Mona Mackay, quoted ibid., 218.

388
“openness and honesty in their love”:
Lawrence, SP, 581.

390
“these bonds between man and man”:
Ibid., 582.

390
“privately… implored Jaafar”:
Ibid., 584.

390
“Turk was man enough not to shoot me”:
Ibid., 590.

391
“Mitfleh with honeyed words”:
Ibid., 591.

393
“For this reason”:
Ibid., 598.

394
“a grown man”:
Knightley and Simpson,
Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia, 163.

394
“in sight of Maan”:
Liddell Hart,
Lawrence of Arabia, 232.

394
“Greetings, Lurens”:
Ibid., 234.

395
“like the hypnotic influence”:
Ibid.

396
“Only once or twice”:
Lawrence, SP, 630.

397
“To some degree Seven Pillars of Wisdom”:
Holroyd,
Bernard Shaw, 1918-1950: The Lure of Fantasy,
Vol. III, 86.

397
“an uncommon face”: Saint Joan
(New York: Random House, 1952), 62.

398
Lawrence seems to have been involved:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia
, 511.

399
“without Feisal’s knowledge”:
Ibid., 512.

399
“at Arab Headquarters”:
Ibid., 513.

399
“almost feminine charm”:
Pakenham,
Peace by Ordeal, 49.

400
“under British colours”:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia, 514.

400
“Mohammed Said, Abd el Kader’s brother”:
Liddell Hart,
Lawrence of Arabia, 254.

401
“Relations between Lawrence and ourselves”:
Ibid., 251.

401
“Lawrence… could certainly not have done”:
Young,
The Independent Arab, 157.

402
“no later than September 16th”:
Ibid., 205.

402
“three men and a boy”:
Lawrence, SP, 462.

402
“on the condition that”:
Liddell Hart,
Lawrence of Arabia, 250.

403
“emphasizing the mystical enchantment”:
Ibid., 257.

404
“a mixed sense of ease”:
Ibid., 258.

405
“I could flatter”:
Ibid., 262.

405
“the desert had become”:
Ibid., 263.

406
“He had removed”:
Ibid., 264.

406
“it was ever [his] habit”:
Ibid., 266.

407
“creating dust columns”:
Ibid., 274.

407
“12,000 sabres”:
Wavell, Palestine Campaigns, 195.

407
“about twelve hundred strong”:
Liddell Hart,
Lawrence of Arabia, 268.

407
“solo effort”:
Ibid., 269.

408
“crammed to the gunwale”:
Ibid.

408
“the cover of the last ridge”:
Ibid., 270.

408
“a fastidious artist”:
Wavell,
Palestine Campaigns, 203.

408
“first have to tear down”:
Liddell Hart,
Lawrence of Arabia, 270.

409
“rushed down to find Peake’s”:
Ibid.

410
“the telegraph, thus severing”:
Ibid., 271.

410
“a lurid blaze”:
Ibid., 273.