Book Review: Lawrence of Arabia’s war: the Arabs, the Britishand the remaking of the Middle East in WWI by Neil Faulkner

Murphy, Mahon (2016) Book Review: Lawrence of Arabia’s war: the Arabs, the Britishand the remaking of the Middle East in WWI by Neil Faulkner. LSE Review of Books (30 Jun 2016). Website.

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Drawing on archival sources and incorporating new archaeological evidence, in Lawrence of Arabia’s War: The Arabs, The British and The Remaking of the Middle East in WWI, Neil Faulkner presents a multi-dimensional account of the conflict in the Middle East during the First World War with the centralised figure of T.E. Lawrence providing the skeletal narrative. While Mahon Murphy finds this a vividly written attempt to understand the totality of the conflict, he questions whether the focus on Lawrence obscures some of the study’s more interesting strands of analysis.

Item Type:	Online resource (Website)
Official URL:	http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/
Additional Information:	© 2016 LSE Review of Books
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Date Deposited:	09 Aug 2016 10:45
Last Modified:	16 May 2024 08:23
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/67397

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