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411
“7,000 yards”:
Wavell,
Palestine Campaigns, 207.

411
“had broken in hopeless”:
Ibid.

412
“clerks, orderlies etc.”:
von Sanders,
Five Years in Turkey, 282.

412
“Nothing is known of the climate”:
Ibid., 282, fn 184.

412
“Early on September 21st”:
Liddell Hart,
Lawrence of Arabia, 275.

413
“lit up by the green shower”:
Ibid., 278.

414
“found the great man at work”:
Lawrence, SP, 753.

414
Allenby personally briefed Lawrence:
Wavell,
Palestine Campaigns, 216-217.

415
“noting the two charred German bodies”:
Lawrence, SP, 758.

415
“packed into the green Vauxhall”:
Ibid.

415
“ ‘Indeed and at last’”:
Ibid., 759.

416
“still regarded him”:
Young,
The Independent Arab, 243.

417
“Ghazale by storm”:
Lawrence, SP, 771.

418
“When we got within sight”:
Ibid., 775-780.

426
“I asked Lawrence to remove”:
Barrow,
The Fire of Life, 211.

427
“At least my mind”:
Lawrence, SP, 784.

427
“tapped
The Seven Pillars”: Barrow,
The Fire of Life,
215.

428
“I said, ‘This morning’ ”:
Lawrence, SP, 785.

428
“Auda was waiting for them”:
Ibid., 788.

430
“A movement like a breath”:
Ibid., 793.

431
“jumped in to drive them apart”:
Ibid., 794.

431
“to wash out the insult”:
Ibid., 795.

432
“could not recognize”:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia, 565.

433
“I had been born free”:
Lawrence, SP, 802.

433
“burst open shops”:
Ibid., 803.

434
“squalid with rags”:
Ibid., 805.

434
“There might be thirty there”:
Ibid.

435
“asked [him] shortly”:
Ibid., 809.

435
“and stalked off”:
Ibid.

436
“triumphal entry”:
Young,
The Independent Arab, 255.

436
“a French Liaison Officer”:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia, 567-568.

437
“declined to have a French Liaison Officer”:
Ibid., 567.

437
“turned to Lawrence”:
Ibid.

437
“he would not work”:
Chauvel, quoted in Knightley and Simpson,
Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia, 96.

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439
“that younger successor”:
J. T. Shotwell,
At the Paris Peace Conference
(New York: 1937), 121. Note that Shotwell, a member of the American delegation, was off by two years—Lawrence was in fact thirty at this time, though he did look far younger.

440
“to arrange for an audience”:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia, 572.

440
“a man dropping a heavy load”:
Ibid.

440
profoundly sad:
Mack,
A Prince of Our Disorder, 256.

442
“a huge fellow”:
Aldington,
Lawrence of Arabia, 250-251.

443
“on or about October 24th”:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia, 573.

444
“under the control” of Feisal:
Ibid., 575.

445
“chafed at”:
Graves and Liddell Hart (eds.),
T. E. Lawrence to His Biographers, 108.

448
“He explained personally”:
Ibid., 106.

448
“if a man has to serve”:
Ibid., 107.

450
“rather taken aback”:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia, 578.

450
“he had made certain promises”:
Graves and Liddell Hart (eds.),
T. E. Lawrence to His Biographers, 107.

451
“if it is behind a British”:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia, 579.

452
“He wore his Arab robes”:
Winston Churchill,
Great Contemporaries, 157.

452
“conversations about the Arabs”:
Ibid., 581. 455
“Without in the least wishing”:
Ibid., 585.

455
“historic duty towards the peoples of Syria”:
Ibid., 584.

456
“You do not want to divide the loot”:
MacMillan,
Paris 1919, 386.

456
“it was essential that Feisal”:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia, 586.

458
“evilgenius”:
MacMillan,
Paris 1919, 389.

458
“You must be quite candid”:
Aldington,
Lawrence of Arabia, 256.

460
As the two leaders stood together:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia, 589;
Rose,
Chaim Weizmann, 199.

461
Curzon spoke scathingly:
Ibid., 590.

461
“incessant friction”:
Ibid., 591.

462
“but we must not put the knife”:
Ibid.

462
“a member of Feisal’s staff”:
Ibid., 592.

462 Thus
Lawrence was placed:
Ibid., 410.

462
“We lived many lives”:
Lawrence, SP, 6

463
“like a choir boy”:
General Édouard Brémond,
Le Hedjaz dans la Guerre Mondiale
, 317, quoted in Aldington,
Lawrence of Arabia
, 257.

463
“civic functions”:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia
, 593.

467
“If the Arabs are established”:
Weizmann,
Letters and Papers
, Vol. IX, Series A, reproduced images between 86 and 87.

467
“ ‘He’ll say that he doesn’t’”:
Quoted in Knightley and Simpson,
Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia
, 120.

468
“the Great Powers”:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia
, 597.

470
“red weals on his ribs”:
Meinertzhagen,
Middle East Diary
, 52.

470
“a silent, masterful man”:
Lawrence, SP, 429.

470
“his mind”:
Meinertzhagen,
Middle East Diary
, 39.

471
“There is nothing funny about toilet paper”:
Ibid., 40.

471
“the most picturesque”:
Mack,
A Prince of Our Disorder
, 264.

471
“He has been described”:
Shotwell,
At the Paris Peace Conference
, 231.

473
“in flowing robes of dazzling white”:
Lloyd George,
Memoirs of the Peace Conference
, Vol. II, 673.

473
with a curved gold dagger:
MacMillan,
Paris 1919
, 291.

474
“President Wilson then made a suggestion”:
Toynbee, quoted in Mack,
A Prince of Our Disorder
, 267.

474
“When he came to the end”:
Toynbee,
Acquaintances
, 182-183.

475
“What did you get that fellow”:
MacMillan,
Paris 1919
, 391.

475
“Poor Lawrence”:
Alexander Mihailovitj,
Nar Jag Var Storfuste Av Ryssland,
314-315, trans. Gunilla Jainchill, quoted in Mack,
A Prince of Our Disorder,
268.

475
“the lines of resentment”:
Nicolson,
Peace Making
, 142.

476
Wilson also turned down all suggestions:
Mack,
A Prince of Our Disorder
, 269.

477
“control of personal feelings”:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia
, 610.

477
fifty big Handley-Page bombers:
Ibid., 611.

478
“a second Gordon”:
Ibid., 608.

479
proclaimed him “Lawrence of Arabia”:
Ibid., 622.

480
The show included not only the film:
Mack,
A Prince of Our Disorder
, 274-275.

481
“summoned Mr. and Mrs. Thomas”: London Times
, November 20, 1919.

483
“Wouldn’t it be fun”:
Mack,
A Prince of Our Disorder
, 271.

485
“the antiquities and ethnology”:
Ibid., 277.

485
“our troubles with the French”:
Wilson,
Lawrence of Arabia
, 617.

485
“that Lawrence will never be employed”:
Ibid.