![]() ![]() This was made all the more difficult because usually, any given tribe had some sort of blood feud going with any other tribe, so that one’s organization had to keep certain tribes far from each other. ![]() But for some two years Lawrence threw himself into learning the best ways to destroy enemy railway bridges and railway lines, learned as much dialectical Arabic as he could, and became personally known to all of the heads of the various desert tribes and admired by them for his ceaseless efforts to use irregular forces against regular military targets. Lawrence recognized that in doing so, he would serve two masters the Arabs (under the Sharif of Mecca and his four sons part of his role was to determine which one was the best one to follow) in joining themselves into a War for Arab Independence, would depend on him and his abilities to ride camelback for days in horrid conditions without complaint, and the English, whom Lawrence knew had no intention of giving impendence or anything like it to the Arabs once the English had won the war. In 1916, Colonel Lawrence was in his late twenties and quite fluent in basic Arabic his role was to convince the various tribes of deserts and towns to ally themselves together to support the British in taking the whole area from the Ottoman Empire (the Turks), which was allied with Germany. I enjoyed reading this book, which is quite complicated and detailed. Today I finished this nonfiction work, which is an autobiographical account of what Colonel Lawrence was doing to further the Arab part in the First World War. ![]()
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