Although 'continually and bitterly ashamed' that the Arabs had risen in revolt against the Turks as a result of fraudulent British promises of self-rule, Lawrence led them in a triumphant campaign which revolutionized the art of war. This title presents the epic events.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom remains - like is enigmatic creator - brilliant and controversial. It describes, in the words of E. M. Forster, 'the revolt in Arabia against the Turks, as it appeared to an Englishman who tool part. Round this tent-pole of a military chronicle. T. E. has hung an unexampled fabric of portraits, descriptions, philosophies, emotions, adventure, dreams. He has brought to his task a fastidious scholarship, an impeccable memory, a style nicely woven of Oxfordisms and Doughty, an eye unparalleled... a profound distrust of himself, a still profounder faith.'