Read Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia Online
Authors: Michael Korda
promises made by, 261, 266, 268–69, 377, 465, 486
Schneider Trophy Cup won by, 649
spies for, 183, 221
and Suez Canal, 234, 256, 267, 282, 285, 510, 515
and Sykes-Picot agreement,
see
Sykes-Picot agreement
British army:
allies in World War I, 10, 242, 252, 304, 305
Arab army supported by, 70
CIGS (chief of imperial general staÃ), 45, 48–49, 112, 361
Desert Mounted Corps, 429
at Gallipoli, 4, 263–64, 269, 277, 282, 285, 290, 295
Imperial Camel Brigade, 381, 395–96, 402, 403, 404, 408, 598
RAF compared with, 579–80, 602
Royal Tank Corps, 576–81, 589
Sandhurst training of, 235–36
Turkish army underestimated by, 4
and World War I, 45, 245, 277, 304, 381
XX Corps, 380
British Army Service Corps, 70
British Expeditionary Force (BEF), 105, 304, 381
British Museum, 184, 185, 186, 191, 197, 199, 209, 210, 222, 223
British Museum Library, 565, 618
British Power Boats factory, 653
Brooke, Rupert, 200, 265
Brough, George,
609
, 612, 613
Brough motorcycles, 574, 581, 590, 595, 608, 609–10,
609
, 612–13, 640, 643–44, 659, 678
Bruce, John “Jock,” 581–83, 585–88, 602, 657, 686
Brydon, William, 632
Buchan, John:
Greenmantle
, 26, 623, 625
Lawrence’s correspondence with, 602, 626, 656
Lawrence’s friendship with, 589
on Lawrence’s writing, 620, 623
Bunsen, Sir Maurice de, 270
Bunyan, John, 630
Burma, in World War II, 29
Burmester, Rudolf, 108
Burns, Ken, 694
Burroughs, William, 344
Burton, Isabel, 327
Burton, Percy, 479, 481
Burton, Sir Richard, 94, 321, 327
Buswari Agha, 229, 240
Butler, Lady, 632
Buxton, Robert “Robin,” 403, 404, 598, 602
Cairo:
Arab Bureau in, 7, 109, 273, 284, 477
British in World War I in, 252–62, 265–70, 282–86, 382
Churchill’s meeting in, 513, 514, 516–17
Intelligence Department in, 252–55, 257, 258, 273, 284, 291
Survey Department in, 258
Callwell, C. E.,
Small Wars
, 57, 58
Campbell, Joseph, 176, 178
’e Hero with a Thousand Faces
, 141
Canterbury, archbishop of, 654
Capa, Robert, 558
Cape, Jonathan,
see
Jonathan Cape, publishing house
Carchemish [Iraq], 144, 184–201, 382
British interest in, 184–86, 199, 201, 204–5, 215, 221, 222, 240
Dahoum in, 196, 197, 212, 214, 224, 228, 646
Hittite ruins in, 184–85, 193, 196, 199, 204, 210, 216, 224, 240
Kurds in, 219–22, 226, 240
Lawrence’s archaeological work in, 191–96, 206–10, 214, 223–31, 239–41
Will’s visit to, 225, 228–30
Carden, Admiral, 263
Carnegie, Dale, 479n
Carson (A.S.C. soldier), 362–63
Carson, Sir Edward, 271
Carter, Howard, 203n
Carter, Maurice, 140n
Carton de Wiart, Sir Adrian, 235–36
Casement, Sir Roger, 654–55
Castro, Fidel, 29–30
Catchpole, Corporal, 678
Catherine the Great, 270n
Cecil, Lord Robert, 440, 443, 445, 446, 450, 456, 461
Cecil, William, 443
Chaignon family, 131
Chamberlain, Sir Austen, 650
Chamberlain, Neville, 675n
Chapman, Benjamin, 119, 121, 122
Chapman, Caroline, 530
Chapman, Edith Sarah Hamilton, Lady:
daughters of, 121, 122, 128
and her husband, 126, 127
religious zeal of, 122–23, 132
Chapman, Francis Vansittart, 116
Chapman, Sir Montagu, 116
Chapman, Sir Thomas Robert Tighe,
see
Lawrence, Thomas
Chapman, William, 119, 122
Chase, Harry, 353, 354, 356, 361, 383–88, 480, 492
Chauvel, Sir Henry, 429, 432, 433, 434
Chetwode, Sir Philip, 380, 576–78, 597
Christie, Agatha,
Murder in Mesopotamia
, 202
Churchill, Lord Randolph (Winston’s father), 451
Churchill, Randolph (Winston’s son), 135
Churchill, Winston, 135, 140n, 172, 509–21, 650, 687
and Baldwin, 674–75
books written by, 248, 621
and films, 481, 690n, 691
and Gallipoli, 4, 263–64
and Lady Astor, 644
Lawrence as Middle East adviser to, 510–13, 515–16, 520, 521, 524–30, 533, 539, 540, 625, 626, 671, 684, 689
and Lawrence’s death, 679, 680
Lawrence’s meetings with, 321, 451–52
and Lawrence’s RAF enlistment, 540–41, 542, 608
Lawrence’s requests for help from, 618, 673
and Lloyd George, 509–11
Marlborough biography by, 669
and Middle East Department, 510–21, 526
personal traits of, 271, 303
speeches by, 653–54
Turkish ships requisitioned by, 248
and World War I, 244, 245, 246, 262, 263–64
and World War II, 654
Circassians, 93, 342
Clausewitz, Carl von, 371
Clayton, Gilbert, 274, 277
as Arab Bureau chief, 12, 48–49, 273
and Balfour Declaration, 399
in Cairo, 252, 253, 257, 259, 284
in Jerusalem, 356
and Lawrence’s mental anguish, 378, 400
Lawrence’s reports to, 15, 49, 56–57, 82, 90, 109, 281, 355, 361–62, 513
as military adviser to Churchill, 512
and military strategy, 297, 298
and peace negotiations, 399
and Sykes-Picot Agreement, 277, 280, 306, 361
and Thomas’s film, 387
Clemenceau, Georges, 210, 454, 459–62, 474–75, 476, 507
Clouds Hill, Moreton, Lawrence’s cottage at, 581, 587, 594, 595, 666, 672, 673–74
Clough, Arthur Hugh, “Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth,” 340, 653–54
Cobbold, Lady Evelyn, 238–39, 255
Cockerell, Sydney, 540, 597
Cody, BuÃalo Bill, 480
Collins, Michael, 576
Colonial Office:
ibn Saud supported by, 88
Middle Eastern Department of, 510–21, 526
Columbia Pictures, 691, 692–93, 694
Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur, 654
Congo Free State, atrocities in, 654
Conrad, Joseph, 554, 612
Heart of Darkness
, 654
Constable, publishers, 566, 567, 573
Constantinople:
British archaeological interests in, 185, 215
Lawrence’s travel in, 186–87
Russian ambitions toward, 12, 270n, 280
Cooper, Collin, 649
Council of Ten, 473–74
Coward, Noël, 495n, 656
Cox, Sir Percy Z., 259, 286, 288–89, 517, 523
Crane, C. R., 484
Cromwell, Oliver, 119
Crusades, and French claims in Middle East, 256, 275, 474
Curtis, Lionel:
and All Souls, 533, 579, 587n
Lawrence’s correspondence with, 143, 579, 580, 590, 626, 656
Lawrence’s friendship with, 472, 508, 589
and Lawrence’s funeral, 679
Lawrence’s Middle East views supported by, 506
and Lawrence’s military service, 579, 580, 608
Curtis Brown, literary agency, 565, 567
Curzon, George Nathaniel, 1st Baron:
and British entry into Jerusalem, 352
and Eastern Committee meetings, 445–47, 456, 461
and Feisal, 456, 487, 506
and Lawrence’s Middle East travels, 167–68
and postwar Middle East diplomacy, 506, 507, 509, 512, 524, 525, 526, 528, 533
and Thomas’s biography of Lawrence, 525
Daher (guide), 348
Dahoum (friend),
213
at Carchemish, 196, 197, 212, 214, 224, 228, 646
journey to Aqaba, 237, 238
in later years, 393–94
Lawrence’s friendship with, 210–14, 262
and Lawrence’s illness, 198, 226
Lawrence’s plans for improvement of, 197, 198, 216
personal traits of, 196, 223
Seven Pillars
dedication to, 498–99
travels with Lawrence, 210, 215, 226–27, 228
in Turkish prison, 221, 349
Daily Express, The
(London), 505, 507, 564, 566, 568–69, 571, 630, 672
Daily Mail, The
(London), 505, 566, 571, 572
Daily News, The
(London), 634, 640
Daily Telegraph
(London), 493, 617
Damascus:
Allenby’s arrival in, 435–37
Arabs in disarray in, 430–35, 440
Arab takeover of, 427, 429–30, 452
journey to, 428–30