Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia (117 page)

and Edith [Chapman], 126, 127

estate of, 119–20

and financial matters, 128, 130–31, 138, 167, 502–3, 530

and his sons, 128–29, 131

name of, 126

and Richards, 157, 186, 189, 214

and Sarah, 116–17, 123–24, 126, 130, 133, 143, 389, 666

T.E.’s letters to, 113;
see also
Lawrence, Sarah

T.E.’s relationship with, 142–45, 146–47, 151, 537–38, 586

trips to Ireland by, 230, 502

Lawrence, Thomas (Sarah’s father), 124–25

Lawrence, William George (brother):

birth and childhood of, 127, 128, 131, 133

and Janet, 160, 490–91, 503

missing, declared dead, 117, 282, 490–91, 503

and religion, 133

T.E.’s correspondence with, 150

visit to Cairo by, 258, 263

visit to Carchemish by, 225, 228–30

and World War I, 243, 254, 282

Lawrence of Arabia
(film), 385, 495n, 690–94

Lean, David, 385, 495n, 690–91, 693, 694, 696

Lebanon:

British control of, 459

French administration of, 507, 697

French ambitions for, 38, 40, 81, 183, 256, 262, 275, 436, 442, 454, 458, 461–62, 486, 505

impoverishment of, 698

Maronite Christians of, 256, 269

and military strategy, 100, 263

Le Carré, John, 183

Leeds, E. T., 182, 185, 209, 215, 218, 225, 282, 320

Legge, Lady, 238

Leigh, Vivien, 690n

Lenin, V. I., 280

Leopold, king of Belgium, 654

Leopold, Prince, 136

Lewis, British gun instructor, 311, 313, 317

Lewis, C. S., 155n

Library of Congress, U.S., 501, 683

Libyan Desert, 358

Liddell Hart, Basil Henry, 509,
665

on British victories, 412

Colonel Lawrence
, 74, 321, 442, 515, 657, 662, 665–66, 689, 696

early years of, 663

Lawrence’s correspondence with, 152, 656–57, 664

on Lawrence’s expeditions, 82, 96, 174–75, 365, 373, 406

on Lawrence’s military abilities, 28, 60, 61, 102n, 104, 359, 377

on Lawrence’s outsider status, 404

personal traits of, 664

Lincoln, Abraham, 327

Lippmann, Walter, 454n

Lloyd, George, 506

at Aqaba, 327, 328, 329, 331

and Arab Bureau, 284

in Cairo, 252, 253, 255, 284

Lloyd George, David, 271, 467, 477

and Balfour Declaration, 399n

and Churchill, 509–11

and Clemenceau, 460–62, 507

and Doughty, 557

and French territorial claims, 486

and Lawrence’s assignments, 527–28n, 689

and military strategy, 70–71, 105, 297, 378

and negotiated peace, 304, 305

and Paris Peace Conference, 210, 460–61, 473

as prime minister, 13, 59–60, 210, 443, 450, 509

and Sykes-Picot agreement, 461, 507

and Thomas’s film, 481–82

and World War I, 381

London Gazette
, 113

Long Range Desert Group (LRDG), 309, 358, 686

Lucas, Joseph, 613

Lyttleton, Major, 107

M 31
(Royal Navy), 59

Maan:

Arab victory at, 99–101

as military goal, 379, 390, 394

telegraph line cut to, 98

Turks bottled up in, 359

Mac Andrew, H. J. M., 414

MacDonald, Ramsay, 674

Macdonogh, Sir George, 444, 445

Machiavelli, Niccolò, 457

Mack, John E., 188, 582n

A Prince of Our Disorder
, 513, 695

Mackenzie, Compton, 617

Madeba, as military goal, 359

Mahdi (Muhammad Ahmad), Dervish army of, 47

Malleson, Miles, 691

Malory, Sir Thomas,
Le Morte d’Arthur
, 179, 243, 401, 402, 630

Mandela, Nelson, 449

Manning, A. J., 671, 672

Manning, Frederic, 265, 672

Mao Tse-tung, 29, 309, 686

maps:

Aqaba-Maan Zone,
97

Arabia,
3

Battle of Tafileh,
369

Hejaz railway,
308

Northern Theater,
324

Ottoman Empire (by Lawrence), 532–33

Turkey’s lifeline,
75

Mardrus, J. C.,
Mille et Une Nuits (’e Arabian Nights)
, 594

Marlborough, Duke of, 60, 669

Marsh, Edward, 452, 508, 511, 618, 625, 641, 656

Marson, T. B., 575, 627, 674

Mason, A. E. W.,
’e Four Feathers
, 319

Maxton, James, 639

Maxwell, Sir John Grenfell, 110, 254, 255, 257, 273, 282, 284–85, 322

McBey, James, 440

McCarthy era (Hollywood), 692

McMahon, Sir Henry, 45, 47

and Cox, 286

as Egypt high commissioner, 7, 12, 246, 257, 266, 273

Hussein’s correspondence with, 267–70, 272, 281, 399, 452, 453, 525

and Sykes-Picot agreement, 280

Mecca:

closed to infidels, 10

defense of, 37, 41, 47, 53

“great Hajj road” to, 190

holy city of, 10, 524

Hussein as sharif of, 11, 19, 70, 88, 404

isolation of, 260

pilgrims to, 24, 190, 292

sharia law in, 56

Turkish surrender of, 292

Turkish threats to, 59

Medina:

failure of attack on, 18, 19, 21, 35, 36, 53, 293

holy city of, 10, 524

“Pilgrim Road” from, 24

railway to, 21, 24, 49, 51, 70, 75–76,
75
, 79, 260, 293, 298, 307, 359, 379, 390, 395

strategic thinking about, 37, 62, 70–71, 74–76, 81, 111

Turkish control of, 59, 293

Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, 282, 285

Mehmed Jemal Kuchuk Pasha “Jemal the Lesser,” 339

Mehmet Talat Pasha, 398

Meinertzhagen, Richard, 323, 325, 469–71, 512–13, 520, 583–84

Merneptah stele, 204

Mesopotamia:

British control in, 40, 257, 444, 454, 458, 460, 474, 477, 505

independent, as goal, 259

Indian ambitions in, 256–57, 261

intelligence gathering in, 286–87

local uprisings in, 505, 506

oil reserves in, 253, 257, 268, 279, 454

Middle East:

ancient hatreds within, 274

and Balfour Declaration,
see
Balfour Declaration

British history of failure in, 290–91

British interests in, 506, 510

brutality in, 34–35, 96, 290, 349

Churchill as head of Colonial Office on, 510–21

deteriorating events in, 504–7, 698

European ambitions for, 38–40, 67, 81–82, 83, 112, 253, 266, 270, 275, 454, 468, 504–5, 697

Lawrence as adviser to Churchill in, 510–13, 515–16, 520, 521, 524–30, 533, 539, 540, 625, 626, 671, 684, 689

Lawrence’s achievements in, 530–33, 684, 686, 696–99

Lawrence’s developing interest in, 163, 164, 166

Lawrence’s first travel to, 166–76

Lawrence’s incisive views on, 443–44, 451–52, 474, 505–7, 509, 527, 532–33, 625–26, 629–30

oil in, 40, 253, 257, 268, 276, 279, 454, 461, 483, 484, 510, 517, 531, 698

and Paris Peace Conference, 100, 460–61, 470, 473, 474, 476, 510

San Remo conference on, 504

and Sykes-Picot Agreement, 276–80, 361, 458, 486

voices of women in, 389–90

Weizmann-Feisal agreement on, 465–68

see also
Ottoman Empire;
specific nations and tribes

Mijbil (guide), 341–42, 347, 348

Mills, John, 694

Mirren, Helen, 694

Mitchell, Reginald J., 642–43

Mitford, Nancy, 416n, 482

Mitla Pass, 106

Mohammed (Auda’s son), 80

Mohammed Said el Kader, emir, 333, 400, 430, 433

Molière,
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
, 663

Montgomery, Bernard Law, 28, 483

Morgenthau, Henry J., 475n

Morocco, as French colonial possession, 48, 442

Morris, William, 156–57, 159, 205–6, 212, 598

Moses, 2, 63, 233, 237, 245

Mosley, Lady Cynthia, 446

Mosley, Sir Oswald, 667, 676

Mosul:

British control of, 398, 460, 461, 517

French ambitions for, 454

Motalga tribe, 367, 368, 370–72

Mountbatten, Lady Louis, 670

Mount Edgcumbe, Lord and Lady, 651

Mudawara, raids on, 311–14, 319–20, 322, 344, 357, 375, 395, 403