At first, the long-sought capture of Damascus might seem to be the climax of "Seven Pillars of Wisdom." Yet the book's actual conclusion occurs afterward, when the weary-hearted Lawrence ...

Lawrence kept extensive records of his experiences throughout 1916-1918 and by December 1919 had a draft for most of the book we know now as the Seven Pillars of Wisdom. He lost this travelling on a ...

I don't know how many times I've read Seven Pillars of Wisdom, but like the other "great books" that T.E. Lawrence wanted it to stand beside—Moby Dick, Thus Spake Zarathustra, and Crime and ...

The Seven Pillars of Wisdom is not an easy book to read. To one not familiar with the details of northern Arabian geography, and few of us are, the multiplicity of place names is confusing.

If any book to come out of World War I qualifies as a masterpiece, that distinction applies to T.E. Lawrence’s war memoir, “Seven Pillars of Wisdom.” It was the basis for “Lawrence of ...

At first, the long-sought capture of Damascus might seem to be the climax of “Seven Pillars of Wisdom.” Yet the book’s actual conclusion occurs afterward, when the weary-hearted Lawrence ...