The best life of Lawrence yet published
- The Express". Lawrence was a brilliant propagandist rhetorician & manipulator who deliberately turned his life into a conundrum. But who was the real man behind the masks? Lawrence began the Great War as a map-clerk & ended it as one of the greatest military heroes of the 20th century. He altered the face of the Middle East helped to lead the Arabs to freedom & formulated modern guerilla warfare. Yet he refused any honours & spent therest of his life in near obscurity. Desert explorer & Arabist Michael Asher set out to solve this riddle & discovers a hero whose greatness owed as much to his weaknesses as to his strengths."