Preface, 1998

Introduction

PART 1: Family Background and Childhood

1. Chapmans and Lawrences

2. Childhood and Adolescence

3. Lawrence and His Family: The Burden of Illegitimacy

PART 2: Youth

Introduction

4. Literary Influences

5. Crusader Castles

6. Lawrence at Jesus College, 1907-1910

7. The First Trip to the Middle East, 1909

8. Lawrence at Carchemish

9. The Epic Dream and the Fact of War

PART 3: The War Years, 1914-1918

Introduction

10. The Background of the Arab Revolt

11.Two Years in Cairo, 1914-1916

12. The Course of the Arab Revolt

13. The Capture of Damascus

14. The Achievements of "Aurens"

15. The Question of Motivation

16. Lawrence the Enabler

17. The Conflict of Responsibility

18. The Heroic Legend and the Hero

19. The Shattering of the Dream

PART 4: The Political Years, 1918-1922

Introduction

20. Arab Self-determination and Arab Unity

21. Leaving Damascus Behind

22. At the Paris Peace Conference

23. Return to England: London and All Souls

24. Lawrence and Churchill: The Political Settlements in the Middle East

PART 5: The Years in the Ranks, 1922-1935

25. The Service Years: An Overview

26. Ross: The First RAF Enlistment

27. The Years in the Tanks

28. Cranwell

29. India

30. Mount Batten

31. "Boats, Boats, Boats"

32. Retirement and Death

PART 6: Further Dimensions

33. Intimacy, Sexuality and Penance

34. Lawrence Assayed

Appendix: Twenty-Seven Articles

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Copyright Acknowledgments

Index

John Mack, M.D., was Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and Founding Director of the Center for Psychology and Social Change, Cambridge, Massachusetts.