W. Lawrence split the remaining assets of the estate, giving Clouds Hill and many copies of less substantial or historical letters to the National Trust, and then set up two trusts to control interests in his brother's residual copyrights. This copy with an excellent provenance, being from the library of socialite Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie. Prufer was a brilliant linguist and an energetic lothario – his many girlfriends included Minna "Fanny" Weizmann, whose brother Chaim was Europe's most prominent Zionist and went on to become Israel's first president. Lawrence made a 300-mile (480 km) personal journey northward in June 1917, on the way to Aqaba, visiting Ras Baalbek, the outskirts of Damascus, and Azraq, Jordan.

Lawrence "of Arabia" has been done almost to death by biographers, military historians and filmmakers. While there was never open combat, there was regular conflict over access to land and treatment of the local workforce; Lawrence gained experience in Middle Eastern leadership practices and conflict resolution. This is, however, an important distinction to be aware of if you are considering purchasing Lawrence in Arabia: despite its title, this is not a biography of the man himself, but rather a telling of his story in its wider context. Scott Anderson, Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East.Review: August 1, 2013, Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East. Larès wrote that Lawrence is usually pictured in France as a Francophobe, but he was really a Francophile. French novelist André Malraux admired Lawrence but wrote that he had a "taste for self-humiliation, now by discipline and now by veneration; a horror of respectability; a disgust for possessions".

He wrote in his description of the Dera'a beating that "a delicious warmth, probably sexual, was swelling through me," and he also included a detailed description of the guards' whip in a style typical of masochists' writing. His last SS100 (Registration GW 2275) is privately owned but has been on loan to the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu [165] and the Imperial War Museum in London. An outstanding exemplar of one of the few purposely incomplete copies of the subscribers' edition, presented by Lawrence to brother-in-arms Lieutenant Samuel H.Note: This review gives the views of the author, and not the position of the LSE Review of Books blog, or of the London School of Economics. First and sole edition, number 21 of 24 copies only, one of 12 printed on Barcham Green "Medway" Paper.

E Lawrence and Aaron Aaronsohn contrast hugely with the ruthlessly ambitious and cooly persuasive Curt Prufer and William Yale, it is interesting to see how they often employ similar approaches to their relevant situations with results that are largely equally dependent on the actions of other players.The chief elements of the Arab strategy which Faisal and Lawrence developed were to avoid capturing Medina, and to extend northward through Maan and Dera'a to Damascus and beyond. Meanwhile, the Sykes–Picot Agreement was being negotiated in London, without the knowledge of British officials in Cairo, which awarded a large proportion of Syria to France.