Read Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia Online
Authors: Michael Korda
Muhammad (Prophet):
descendents of, 259
successors to, 256
Muhammad Sharif al-Faruqi, 268, 283
Murray, Sir Archibald:
and Egyptian Expeditionary Force, 4, 45, 285
at Gaza, 4, 70–71, 91, 104–5
and Lawrence’s reports, 291
and Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, 282
and military strategy, 5, 29, 285
replacement by Allenby, 105, 108, 110, 297, 322
Murray, Thomas, 140n
Muslims, spiritual leadership of, 261
Nablus, British conquest of, 412
Nakhl Mubarak, Arab army at, 54, 56, 57
Napoleon Bonaparte, 235, 275
Lawrence compared to, 28, 60, 61, 149, 515
Lawrence’s studies of, 28, 29
military strategies of, 366, 370, 411
Naqib of Baghdad, 523
Nasir, sharif of Medina, 399
and attack on Aqaba, 99, 238
journey to Aqaba, 82, 83, 89, 90, 95
journey to Damascus, 428, 429
journey to Wejh, 65
at Sheikh Saad, 417, 424
and tribal rivalries, 92
on Turkish threat to Aqaba, 301
Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 234
Nazareth, British conquest of, 411–12
Nefudh dunes, 86
Nehru, Jawaharlal, 483
Nelson, Flight Lieutenant, 546
Nelson, Horatio Viscount Nelson, 112, 567, 686, 690
Nesib el Bekri, 82, 89
New, E. H., 167
Newcombe, Stewart F.:
as British military adviser to Feisal, 63, 65
and Carchemish site, 240
and Lawrence’s funeral, 679
military skills of, 235
mutual respect of Lawrence and, 64, 65, 90
and Palestine map survey, 235, 236–38
in Paris, 472
and raids on railway to Medina, 70, 82
and World War I, 250, 252, 254, 257
Newspaper Proprietors Association, 673
New York Times, The
, 636, 638
Nicholas, Grand Duke, 289
Nicholas I, Czar, 13
Nicolson, Sir Arthur, 274–75
Nicolson, Sir Harold, 274n, 475, 583, 656
Nightingale, Florence, 449
Northern Theater, map,
324
Nuri as-Said, 364–65
Arab regulars commanded by, 417
cutting railway lines, 364, 410
deportation to India, 259
as former Turkish officer, 19
as future prime minister of Iraq, 259
at Tafas, 419, 424
at Tafileh, 360, 365
travel with Feisal to Europe, 457
at Um el Surab, 415
Nuri Shallan, Emir, 415, 417
as Arab ruler, 88–89, 92, 403
attacks on Turkish lines, 416, 428
at Damascus, 429
physical traits of, 91
and tribal rivalries, 88
Turkish connections of, 88, 89, 95
Obeid el Raashid, 18, 23, 26–27, 29, 30
Observer, The
(London), 505
Odyssey
(Homer), Lawrence’s translation of, 102n, 151, 489, 605, 625, 633, 643, 655, 661–62
Official Secrets Act, 678
Offit, Avodah, 140n
O’Flaherty, Liam, 612
Olivier, Sir Laurence, 690n, 692
Oman, Charles, 165, 166
On the Waterfront
(film), 692
Orwell, George,
Down and Out in Paris and London
, 579
Osler, Sir William, 219
O’Toole, Peter, 693, 694, 695
Ottoman Empire:
archaeological sites in, 141, 184–85, 190, 199, 233, 239
and British foreign policy, 12–13, 183, 260
and British intelligence, 283
and British Turcophiles, 12–13
European ambitions for, 81–82, 270, 469, 697–98
gun-running in, 218–19, 221
as isolated and primitive for travelers, 168–69
Lawrence’s first trip to, 168–76
map by Lawrence, 532–33
Sykes-Picot agreement on, 38, 40, 81, 276, 278–79, 504
war rumors in, 202–3, 215
war strategies against, 2, 253, 291, 531
weaknesses of, 222, 224–25
and World War I, 252
Owen, Wilfred, 265
Oxford:
Ashmolean Museum, 136, 141, 155, 165, 182, 222, 223, 225, 675
City of Oxford High School, 136–40, 144
Lawrence family in, 128, 132, 497
Oxford Times
, 539
Oxford University:
All Souls College, 119, 143, 185n, 484–85, 489–90, 491–92, 497, 503, 533, 557, 579, 587n, 681
Bodleian Library, 618
Jesus College, 153, 155–56, 162–65, 173–74, 176–77, 178, 182, 185–86, 202, 217
Lawrence’s entrance into, 148, 151–52, 153
Lawrence’s thesis in, 150, 163, 165, 176–77, 186, 202
Magdalen College at, 185
student life in, 154–55
vanished world of, 491–92, 662
Oxford University Officers’ Training Corps, 156, 158, 243
Oxford University Press, 598
Palestine:
borders of, 519–20, 524
British control of, 412, 444, 451, 459, 460, 466, 474, 477, 505, 507, 509, 520, 697
creation as separate entity, 697
diverse populations of, 521–22
flag of, 272
holy sites in, 39, 466
Jewish settlements in, 277, 306, 329, 451, 463, 466, 467, 468, 476, 509, 512, 520, 522, 531–32, 695
Lawrence’s travels in, 171–72
map survey of, 63, 83, 232–39
as military goal, 100, 267
military strategy between wars, 29
national home for Jewish people in, 39, 399–400, 511, 520, 531–32, 697
partition of, 39, 276, 329, 466
political control of, 39, 280, 444, 458
and Sykes-Picot agreement, 39, 276, 280, 451, 467
Weizmann-Feisal agreement on, 465–68
and Zionism, 280, 306, 328–29, 451, 458, 463, 466–67, 519–20, 524, 531
Palestine Exploration Fund:
mapping expedition, 63, 83, 232–41, 246
report:
’e Wilderness of Zin
, 241–42, 244, 250, 254
Palmer, E. “Posh,” 606, 608
Paris Peace Conference (1919), 468–78
and Britain, 439–40, 453, 456–59, 462, 469, 475–76, 510
Clemenceau at, 210, 460–61, 474
and Council of Ten, 473–74
and Feisal, 439, 452, 453, 455–59,
456, 459
, 461, 468, 469, 472, 473–77
and France, 439–40, 453, 456–59, 460, 469, 473–78
and Lawrence, 96, 137, 210, 439–40, 452–53, 457,
459
, 462, 471–74, 476, 485, 698
Lloyd George at, 210, 460–61, 473
Meinertzhagen at, 469–71
and Middle East, 100, 460–61, 470, 473, 474, 476, 510
scope of discussions at, 468–69
TV film about, 694
and Wilson, 210, 454, 458, 460, 472, 473, 474, 475, 476
Parker, K. T., 675
Patch, Blanche, 577
Patton, George C., 694
Peake, Frederick, 407, 409, 528–29
Peerage Act (1963), 118
Pepys, Samuel, 8
Persia, oil in, 531
Petrie, Flinders, 195, 197, 201, 202, 203–4, 222
Philby, St. John “Jack,” 405n, 483, 484, 506, 529
Pichon, Stéphen-Jean-Marie, 455, 461, 475
Picot,
see
Georges-Picot, François
Pike, Manning, 598, 602, 611
Pirie-Gordon, C. H. C., 167, 175
Pisani, Rosario, 306, 419
Plato, 630
Pontius Pilate, 8, 353
Poole, Reginald Lane, 155, 156
Port Said, Lawrence’s travels in, 169, 175
Pound, Ezra, 205, 672, 688
Price, Hugh [Aprice], 152
Private Life of Henry VIII, The
(film), 668
PT boats, 649
Pudovkin, Vsevolod, 62
Pugh, Flight Sergeant, 608, 614, 616
Rabegh:
defense of, 60
French ambitions for, 47, 48
journey to, 17–18, 21–28, 30–31
Lawrence’s assignment to, 49–50
military stores at, 298
rumors of Turkish attack on, 47, 49
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 119, 597
Rashids, ibn Saud as emir of, 88
Rasim, Damascene soldier, 372
Rattigan, Terence,
Ross
, 694
Rawlinson, Sir Henry, 251
Redmond, John, 271
Red Sea ports, 21, 88
Rennell, Lord, 482
Reshadiye
, 247–48
Revolt in the Desert
[abridgement of
Seven Pillars
] (Lawrence):
charity fund for income from, 622
copyright sold to Cape, 602–3, 614
critical reviews of, 622–23