THE SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM

As Angus Calder states in his Introduction to this edition, Seven Pillars of Wisdom is one of the major statements about the fighting experience of the First World War. Lawrence's younger brothers, Frank and Will, had been killed on the Western Front in 1915. The book was written between 1919 and 1926 and it tells of the vastly different campaign against the Turks in the Middle East, one which encompasses gross acts of cruelty and revenge and ends in a welter of stink and corpses in the disgusting hospital in Damascus. Great value 665 page paperback.