Lawrence in Arabia

Chapter Overview

• Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation

• Chapter 2: Thomas Edward Lawrence’s keen passion for history drew him to the Middle East.

• Chapter 3: Three additional men from varied walks of life were also already hard at work in the Middle East before WWI.

• Chapter 4: "History is often a story of small moments – chance meetings or simple choices or pure accident …"

• Chapter 5: The horrors of war rapidly intensified once the Ottoman Empire picked a side.

• Chapter 6: Lawrence and Yale both recoiled at incompetence and deceit they were witnessing there.

• Chapter 7: The Arab Revolt began with negotiations that were grounded in deception.

• Chapter 8: The Jewish population of the Middle East likewise played an influential role in the war.

• Chapter 9: Lawrence and Prüfer ended up on opposing paths amid the thick of the war.

• Chapter 10: Lawrence spearheaded a raid on Aqaba that altered the course of the war.

• Chapter 11: As the war wore on, Lawrence’s experiences grew darker.

• Chapter 12: Aaronsohn and Yale learned that the United States had limited interest in the Middle East.

• Chapter 13: As the war carried into 1918, the outcome remained unclear for either side.

• Chapter 14: Fifteen months of fighting came to a climactic end in Damascus.

• Chapter 15: Despite their best efforts, Yale and Lawrence couldn’t avert the errors of the Paris Peace Conference.

• Chapter 16: Lawrence spent the remainder of his life trying to cope with the betrayals and horrors of WWI.