Read Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia Online
Authors: Michael Korda
Hogarth, by Augustus John.
Clayton, by Eric Kennington
Ronald Storrs, by Eric Kennington.
Allenby, by James McBey.
Feisal, photograph by Harry Chase.
The rifle presented to Lawrence by Feisal. Note that Lawrence carved his initials, the date, and four notches in the stok
Feisal’s bodyguard and slave, by James McBey.
Sharif Hussein, photographed in Jidda.
Lawrence, photographed by Harry Chase at Aqaba, 1918.
Abdulla, by Eric Kennington.
Auda Abu Tayi, by Eric Kenningtc
T. E. Lawrence, by Harry Chase.
Poster for Lowell Thomas’s “travelogue,” this one probably for the Australian production. (Note the Australian soldier in the characteristic slouched hat, in the foreground. Note, too, that the future author of How to Win Friends and Influence People is still spelling his name “Carnagey.”)
Map of the partition of Syria and Iraq as devised in the 1916 Sykes-Picot agreement, by Tom Wrigley.