Lawrence and the Arabs, Robert Graves
Lawrence and the Arabs, Robert Graves
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Lawrence and the Arabs

Author: Robert Graves

Narrator: Joseph Porter

Unabridged: 13 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/15/2009

Synopsis

T. E. Lawrence began his lifelong affair with the Middle East as a student at Oxford, taking a fourmonth walking tour of Syria to study the Crusaders castles. He later returned to the area as an archaeologist and was attached to British Army Intelligence in Egypt at the outbreak of World War I. In 1916, he set out on his greatest adventure: with no backing, Lawrence joined Arab forces facing almost insurmountable odds in a rebellion against Turkish domination. His brilliance as a desertwar strategist made him a hero among the Arabs and a legend throughout the world, earning him the moniker Lawrence of Arabia. But his nearpathological dislike of publicity led him to a life of selfimposed obscurity as T. E. Shaw, anonymous RAF soldier. This is the official biography of a unique leader of men whose largerthanlife presence still echoes.

About Robert Graves

Robert Graves (1895–1985) was an English poet, translator, and novelist, one of the leading English men of letters in the twentieth century. He fought in World War I and won international acclaim in 1929 with the publication of his memoir of the First World War, Good-bye to All That. After the war, he was granted a classical scholarship at Oxford and subsequently went to Egypt as the first professor of English at the University of Cairo. He is most noted for his series of novels about the Roman emperor Claudius and his works on mythology, such as The White Goddess.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim on July 20, 2022

A couple of weeks ago, I had what was probably my seventh viewing of the movie, "Lawrence of Arabia." While I am drawn to the story (and the cinematography that is jaw-dropping), my main fascination has always been the portrayal of the title character by Peter O'Toole. The mental and emotional journ......more

Goodreads review by Faith on September 21, 2017

I really wanted to like this book. It's about a fascinating character, written by one of my favorite authors--a personal friend of Lawrence's. And I did like parts: the beginning and the end when Graves talked about Lawrence's early life and his life after the WWI campaign with the Arabs. The middle......more

Goodreads review by Jon on October 10, 2019

It's a curious mixture of personal memories of an exotic friend and individual and a clear-sighted review of the events of the Arab Revolt. The result is very engaging and very different from what others wrote about him. And what he wrote about himself. One memorable section deals with Arab casualti......more

Goodreads review by Brian on April 04, 2019

3.4 out of 5. I’m a fan of Laurence of Arabia. I’ve read Revolt in the Desert and watched the film several times each. This book does give some added material. It’s more structured and describes the actions in a lot of detail. It also relates the action to the overall war in the Middle East, and giv......more

Goodreads review by DogfacePonySoldier on May 10, 2022

I did not know anything about Lawrence of Arabia. Now I know a little. Some of the material sounds a little fantastical and designed to make a myth out of a historically great figure. For example, it's going to be difficult to convince me that T.E. Lawrence read the 10,000 in the Oxford library in j......more

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