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Dewey Decimal Number: 940.415092 EAN: 9780020826620 Edition: Rep Abr ISBN: 0020826621 Label: Collier Books Manufacturer: Collier Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 453 Publication Date: 1992-03 Publisher: Collier Books Studio: Collier Books Related Items:
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 Rating:  - An excellent book but the paperback edition reduces it by halfThe 5 stars are for the hardback version of the book, not the paperback. Why? The Jeremy Wilson book about T. E. Lawrence is the best and most accurate book ever written about Lawrence, but the paperback edition of the book has been edited down to about half the size of the hardback, from 1188 pages to slightly less than 500 pages. That's a huge reduction! Therefore it's better to buy the hardback copy and not the paperback. Rating:  - Restating history in the shadow of a great movieThe hero of David Lean's cinematic masterpiece of 1962 is unforgettable to anyone who has seen this marvelous movie. Jeremy Wilson attempts a meticulous, factual biography of T. E. Lawrence. His book provides a less romantic portrayal of Lawrence, who however remains a towering and distinctive personality, but emerges more as a tragic hero than the movie character. Wilson shows Lawrence's compromises with the diplomatic maneuverings of Britain and France come to the fore in this book. Another interesting ... Read More Rating:  - Good overview but leave many questions openThis book is a good read and interesting for people who want to get a good overview on the topic and are interested in history. The author sticks to the facts and let Lawrence speak through his letters. This, however, lets many questions of his character open. The author avoids getting deeper into his personality and for those who are interested in the psychology of his character will be a littlebit disappointed. The author does not (like one of the reviewers says) clearifies whether he was homosexual or ... Read More Rating: - The Best Bio of Lawrence: Factually and ObjectivelyJeremy Wilson's bio of T.E. Lawrence is a great resource and, for a subject so riddled (more than any other I know) by ulterior motive by other authors -- whether it is hero-building or hero-trouncing -- and is probably the only worthwhile biography of TEL ever written.* *I will give exception to Robert Graves, who's work has literary merit, but its age and rushed composition leaves it unfortunately incomplete and inadequate in points of fact. Wilson does a great job of putting Lawrence's ... Read More Rating: - goodI found this extremely readable, and written clearly (a relief after trying to plow through T.E. Lawrence's own murky 7 PILLARS OF WISDOM, a book he himself did not like after he learned that good writing is clear writing). I wouldn't have, and a lot of you reading this, wouldn't have come to this book without the movie, so I would like to mention some things that the movie was wrong about, according to this book. 1) T. E. Lawrence did have to execute an Arab with his pistol, but he DID feel remorse about ... Read More 
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