373 Arab losses were about twenty-five killed:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 476.

374 As was so often the case with Lawrence:Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia, 220.

374 “brilliant mind”: Lawrence, SP, 579.

375 “the complete ruin of my plans”:Ibid., 568.

376 “will was gone”:Ibid., 572.

376 “that pretence to lead the national uprising”:Ibid., 571.

376 “made a mess of things”:Ibid.

377 “a very sick man”:Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia, 233.

377 “a cog himself”:Ibid.

377 “solitary in the ranks”:Title of a book by H. Montgomery Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks: Lawrence of Arabia as Airman and Private Soldier(London: Constable, 1977).

378 “letting[him] off”:Lawrence, SP, 752.

379 “to knock Turkey out of the war”:Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia, 224.

379 In the end all he would get:Ibid.

379 “to take up again my mantle”:Lawrence, SP, 572.

379 “where the Arabs would easily defeat [them]”:Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia, 227.

380 “between pincers”:Ibid.

380 “that skirt-wearers”:Lawrence, SP, 574.

381 “reeling backwards on Amiens”:Wavell, Palestine Campaigns, 183.

382 Lawrence’s “understudy”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 491.

382 “Lawrence really counted more”:Young, The Independent Arab, 143, quoted in Wilson, Lawrence, 491.

384 “the Grand Cross of the Order”:Thomas, With Lawrence in Arabia, 391.

384 “[sailed] fifteen hundred miles”:Ibid., 111.

384 “Hindus, Somalis, Berberines”:Ibid., 118.

384 “was kicked overboard”:Ibid., 120.

384 “Lawrence himself came down”:Ibid., 121.

385 “To accompany Lawrence and his body-guard”:Ibid., 183.

386 “was never in the Arab firing line”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia,494, from T. E. Lawrence to E. M. Forster, June 17, 1925, King’s College, Cambridge.

386 “My cameraman, Mr. Chase”:Thomas, With Lawrence in Arabia, 369.

387 “the rose-red city”:Mona Mackay, quoted ibid., 218.

388 “openness and honesty in their love”: Lawrence, SP, 581.

390 “these bonds between man and man”:Ibid., 582.

390 “privately… implored Jaafar”:Ibid., 584.

390 “Turk was man enough not to shoot me”:Ibid., 590.

391 “Mitfleh with honeyed words”:Ibid., 591.

393 “For this reason”:Ibid., 598.

394 “a grown man”:Knightley and Simpson, Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia, 163.

394 “in sight of Maan”:Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia, 232.

394 “Greetings, Lurens”:Ibid., 234.

395 “like the hypnotic influence”:Ibid.

396 “Only once or twice”:Lawrence, SP, 630.

397 “To some degree Seven Pillars of Wisdom”:Holroyd, Bernard Shaw, 1918-1950: The Lure of Fantasy,Vol. III, 86.

397 “an uncommon face”: Saint Joan(New York: Random House, 1952), 62.

398 Lawrence seems to have been involved:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 511.

399 “without Feisal’s knowledge”:Ibid., 512.

399 “at Arab Headquarters”:Ibid., 513.

399 “almost feminine charm”:Pakenham, Peace by Ordeal, 49.

400 “under British colours”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 514.

400 “Mohammed Said, Abd el Kader’s brother”:Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia, 254.

401 “Relations between Lawrence and ourselves”:Ibid., 251.

401 “Lawrence… could certainly not have done”:Young, The Independent Arab, 157.

402 “no later than September 16th”:Ibid., 205.

402 “three men and a boy”:Lawrence, SP, 462.

402 “on the condition that”:Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia, 250.

403 “emphasizing the mystical enchantment”:Ibid., 257.

404 “a mixed sense of ease”:Ibid., 258.

405 “I could flatter”:Ibid., 262.

405 “the desert had become”:Ibid., 263.

406 “He had removed”:Ibid., 264.

406 “it was ever [his] habit”:Ibid., 266.

407 “creating dust columns”:Ibid., 274.

407 “12,000 sabres”:Wavell, Palestine Campaigns, 195.

407 “about twelve hundred strong”:Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia, 268.

407 “solo effort”:Ibid., 269.

408 “crammed to the gunwale”:Ibid.

408 “the cover of the last ridge”:Ibid., 270.

408 “a fastidious artist”:Wavell, Palestine Campaigns, 203.

408 “first have to tear down”:Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia, 270.

409 “rushed down to find Peake’s”:Ibid.

410 “the telegraph, thus severing”:Ibid., 271.

410 “a lurid blaze”:Ibid., 273.

411 “7,000 yards”:Wavell, Palestine Campaigns, 207.

411 “had broken in hopeless”:Ibid.

412 “clerks, orderlies etc.”:von Sanders, Five Years in Turkey, 282.

412 “Nothing is known of the climate”:Ibid., 282, fn 184.

412 “Early on September 21st”:Liddell Hart, Lawrence of Arabia, 275.

413 “lit up by the green shower”:Ibid., 278.

414 “found the great man at work”:Lawrence, SP, 753.

414 Allenby personally briefed Lawrence:Wavell, Palestine Campaigns, 216-217.

415 “noting the two charred German bodies”:Lawrence, SP, 758.

415 “packed into the green Vauxhall”:Ibid.

415 “ ‘Indeed and at last’”:Ibid., 759.

416 “still regarded him”:Young, The Independent Arab, 243.

417 “Ghazale by storm”:Lawrence, SP, 771.

418 “When we got within sight”:Ibid., 775-780.

426 “I asked Lawrence to remove”:Barrow, The Fire of Life, 211.

427 “At least my mind”:Lawrence, SP, 784.

427 “tappedThe Seven Pillars”: Barrow, The Fire of Life,215.

428 “I said, ‘This morning’ ”:Lawrence, SP, 785.

428 “Auda was waiting for them”:Ibid., 788.

430 “A movement like a breath”:Ibid., 793.

431 “jumped in to drive them apart”:Ibid., 794.

431 “to wash out the insult”:Ibid., 795.

432 “could not recognize”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 565.

433 “I had been born free”:Lawrence, SP, 802.

433 “burst open shops”:Ibid., 803.

434 “squalid with rags”:Ibid., 805.

434 “There might be thirty there”:Ibid.

435 “asked [him] shortly”:Ibid., 809.

435 “and stalked off”:Ibid.

436 “triumphal entry”:Young, The Independent Arab, 255.

436 “a French Liaison Officer”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 567-568.

437 “declined to have a French Liaison Officer”:Ibid., 567.

437 “turned to Lawrence”:Ibid.

437 “he would not work”:Chauvel, quoted in Knightley and Simpson, Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia, 96.

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439 “that younger successor”:J. T. Shotwell, At the Paris Peace Conference(New York: 1937), 121. Note that Shotwell, a member of the American delegation, was off by two years—Lawrence was in fact thirty at this time, though he did look far younger.

440 “to arrange for an audience”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 572.

440 “a man dropping a heavy load”:Ibid.

440 profoundly sad:Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 256.

442 “a huge fellow”:Aldington, Lawrence of Arabia, 250-251.

443 “on or about October 24th”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 573.