Unfortunately my concern was limited to this end, and the book is just a designed procession of Arab freedom from Mecca to Damascus. They were but wonderful, especially when it is taken into account that they had not the motive, the imaginative vision of the end, which sustained officers. Especially I am most sorry that I have not told what the non-commissioned of us did. This isolated picture throwing the main light upon myself is unfair to my British colleagues. This may hide individuality and make the book a scatter of featureless puppets, rather than a group of living people: but once good is told of a man, and again evil, and some would not thank me for either blame or praise. Others still possess themselves, and here keep their secrecy. Since the adventure some of those who worked with me have buried themselves in the shallow grave of public duty. The record of events was not dulled in me and perhaps few actual mistakes crept in-except in details of dates or numbers-but the outlines and significance of things had lost edge in the haze of new interests.ĭates and places are correct, so far as my notes preserved them: but the personal names are not.

So it was built again with heavy repugnance in London in the winter of 1919-20 from memory and my surviving notes. It seemed to me historically needful to reproduce the tale, as perhaps no one but myself in Feisal’s army had thought of writing down at the time what we felt, what we hoped, what we tried. Afterwards, in the autumn of 1919, this first draft and some of the notes were lost. Lawrence, A051 Republisher_date 20210208212733 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 379 Scandate 20210206134254 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 0224013416 Tts_version 4.The story which follows was first written out in Paris during the Peace Conference, from notes jotted daily on the march, strengthened by some reports sent to my chiefs in Cairo. OL830532W Page_number_confidence 92.81 Pages 586 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.7 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 References O'Brien, P.M. (Arnold Walter), 1900-1991 Kennington, Eric, 1888-1960 John, Augustus, 1878-1961 Carline, Sydney, 1888-1929 Boxid IA40057415 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 00:00:57 Associated-names Lawrence, A.

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