Lawrence's Seven Pillars

Lawrence represented a pre war and pre industrial idel. His writing gave a glimpse of exoticism about arabia that was tantalizing. It captured the sentimentality towards an imagined biblical middle east. The bedouin he described were heathen and sometimes barbaric, but redolent of a lost civilization and somehow familiar, fraternal and stoic. Lawrence read extensively the works of military history,. citing belisarius, hannibal caesar, gilbert gemini, borse napoleon and maurice de sax and clausevitz. He famously claimed to have re fought the campaigns of the duke of marlborough through this critical method of examining process rather