596 “With their missionary zeal”:Ibid., 88.

596 “There isn’t as much strength in Joan”:Lawrence, Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw, 1922-1926, Vol. I, 86.

597 “I’d like to very much”:Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 97.

598 “all sorts of minor ailments”:Ibid., 102.

598 “I’d rather the few copies”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 727.

599 “The business will be done”:Ibid., 731.

599 “Confound you”:Lawrence, Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw, 1922-1926, Vol. I, 103-105.

601 “I’m always afraid of being hurt”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 739.

602 “I don’t know by what right”:Lawrence, Letters, Garnett (ed.), 214.

602 “fits of extreme depression”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 754.

chapter twelveApotheosis

605 “A Flight-Sergeant came along”:Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 109.

606 “dragged in to the Headquarters Adjutant”:Lawrence, Letters, Garnett (ed.), 481.

608 “He was hero-worshipped”:Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 117.

608 “to dive into the elastic water”:Ibid., 113.

610 “found Feisal lively”:Ibid., 116.

610 “So long as there is breath”:Lawrence, Correspondence with Bernard and Charlotte Shaw, 1922-1926, Vol. I, 150.

611 “This bundle of proofs”:Ibid., 137.

611 “Something extraordinary always happens”:Ibid., 35.

612 The gift basket from Gunter’s:Ibid., 150-6.

613 “No thanks: no money”:Lawrence, Home Letters, 360.

615 “It is not the right blue”:Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 127.

616 “with his right arm dangling”:Ibid., 121.

617 “It is good of you”:Trenchard Papers, November 20, 1926, quoted ibid., 124.

618 This was an infringement of the U.K. Copyright Act:Ibid., 126.

618 “I have been surprised”:Ibid., 132.

620 “the breath away by its sheer brutality”:Ibid., 133.

620 “Hullo here’s the Orderly”:Lawrence, Letters,Garnett (ed.), 502-503.

620 “Wave upon wave”:Ibid., 502-503.

622 “I do wish, hourly”:Ibid., 506.

623 Not only Bernard Shaw believed:Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 135.

624 At Cranwell, the telegraph boy:Ibid., 128.

624 “When I opened your letter”:Ibid., 138.

625 “The fellow you need to influence”:Lawrence, Letters, Garnett (ed.), 599.

626 “Gertrude was not a good judge”:Ibid., 543.

628 “was sentfor”:Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 143.

629 “his head was everything”:Ibid., 149.

629 “suddenly and quietly”:Ibid., 150.

630 “William Blake, Thomas Malory”:Ibid., 152.

630 “which he kept in a small tin box”:Ibid.

630 “I think probably there will be”:Ibid.

630 “instead of visiting Karachi”:Ibid., 154.

631 “A conversation between”:Ibid., 163.

631 “We are only 26”:Ibid.

633 “I think that the spectacle”:Ibid., 169.

633 “Very bookish, this house-bred”:Lawrence, Odyssey of Homer, end of “Note.”

634 A genuine holy man:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 845.

634 On January 3,1929:Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 178.

634 “ineradicable suspicion”:Ibid.

636 ”great mystery”:Ibid., 209.

638 “No, my name is Mr. Smith”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 846.

639 No sooner had Trenchard:Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 183.

640 “the marriage tangles”:Ibid., 184.

640 “Why must you be”:Ibid., 185.

640 “I am being hunted”:Lawrence, Letters,Garnett (ed.), 641.

641 “Cattewaterproves to be”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 850.

641 “A man who can run away”:Lawrence, Letters,Garnett (ed.), 648.

642 “I’m very weary of being stared at”:Lawrence, Selected Letters, Garnett (ed.), 307.

643 Lawrence heard Bernard Shaw read:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 854.

644 “A pea-hen voice”:Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 190.

644 “invited herself”:Ibid.

644 “I do not know when”:Lawrence, Letters,Garnett (ed.), 665.

645 “Thus he was able to have a deep”:Clare Sydney Smith, The Golden Reign, 37.

647 Lawrence entered the picture:Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 194.

647 Unfortunately, Shaw was too busy:Ibid., 195.

648 “As regards including Lawrence”:Ibid., 268.

648 “telling me off as usual”:Ibid., 197.

650 “to stop leading from the ranks”:Ibid., 199.

651 “elevenses”:Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 205.

652 “You are a simple aircraftman”:Arnold Lawrence (ed.), Letters to T. E. Lawrence, 180.

653 “a marine expert”:Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 209.

653 “every sentence in it”:Ibid., 210.

654 “read it at Umtaiye”:Knightley and Simpson, Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia, 260.

655 “As I see it”:Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 212.

655 “and he was a wash-out”:Lawrence, Selected Letters, Garnett (ed.), 324.

656 “Dear 338171”:Ibid., 473.

658 Lawrence “is wearing a uniform”:Emma Smith, The Great Western Beach, 244.

659 “the best motorcycle out”:West, David Reese among Others, 193.

659 “Ah, yes—that”:Ibid., 202.

660 “The discharge of this airman”:Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 218.

660 looking after the interests of the Air Ministry:Ibid., 220.

660 “Lawrence of Arabia has decided to stay”:Ibid.

661 “agreed with Lawrence’s view”:Mack, A Prince of Our Disorder, 519-520.

661 “surely I am not in clear-shining Ithaca”:Lawrence, Odyssey of Homer, 190-191.

662 Jeremy Wilson notes that he took:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 892.

666 “It’ll end in tragedy”:Graves and Liddell Hart, T. E. Lawrence to His Biographers, 140.

666 “the rhetoric of freedom”:Ibid., 186-187.

667 The British Fascists:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 916-917.

667 “In March 1935 the RAF”:Lawrence, Letters, Brown (ed.), 528.

668 “I lunched with Alexander Korda”:Ibid., 549.

669 “Korda is like an oil-company”:Ibid., 534.

669 Lawrence enjoyed Bridlington:Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 228.

670 “ ‘Oh, I am so sorry’”:Ibid., 230-231.

670 “When I want the advice”:Ibid., 232.

671 “armament school”:Ibid., 238.

671 “The conquest of the last element”:Lawrence, Letters, Garnett (ed.), 368.

672 “Aircraftman Shaw”:Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 241.

672 “How I wish he hadn’t”:Ibid., 234.

673 Horrified—he needed:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 927.

674 “All here is very quiet”:Hyde, Solitary in the Ranks, 245.

674 “I believe when the Government”:Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, 934.

674 “Wild mares would not take me”:Ibid.

675 “At present I am sitting”:Lawrence, Letters, Brown (ed.), 541.

676 Having completed his errands:Knightley and Simpson, Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia, 270.

678 Lawrence lay unconscious:Ibid., 272-273.

680 “Istood beside him lying”:Storrs, Orientations, 530-531.

epilogueLife after Death

684 “an Austrian-born religious artist”:Brown, Lawrence of Arabia, 196-197.