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    Posted: 28-Aug-2012 at 19:06

Following the disastrous withdrawal from Gallipoli the British planned to instigate an Arab uprising against the Turks. Archaeologist T.E. Lawrence was sent to work with Sherif Husein and his son Faisal, future king of Iraq, ultimately capturing Damascus from the weakened Turkish army 
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A very dynamic, yet waspish sort of fellow...with an inferiority complex coupled to a huge ego, imo.
But was he instruemental in the war effort? Damn straight he was. And there's never ever been another Anglo to gain the confidences and trust of the Arabs since him. He was in a word: unique.
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Many many years ago I was in Azrac, met the son of one of the Arab tribal leaders who let me look through his photograph collection of his father and Lawrence on campaign during the Arab revolt.


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Stupidity got us into this mess, why can't it get us out?

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Besides his adventures in the desert, Lawrence served in the Tank Corps and the RAF. Sadly, he died prematurely in a motorcycle crash after the war
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