
Ep 014 "TE Lawrence and the Guerrilla Mind (Part One)"
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One of the peak guerrilla fountainheads in the early twentieth century, TE Lawrence has been in both the popular imagination and a large part of the engine in the Middle East that signed the death knell for foreign colonial powers to leave the region, Eccentric and brilliant, one of the few successful insurgency leaders during WWI.
References:
Scott Anderson Lawrence of Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East
James J. Schneider Guerrilla Leader: TE Lawrence and the Arab Revolt
TE Lawrence Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Desmond Stewart TE Lawrence: A New Biography
Jeremy Wilson Lawrence of Arabia: The Authorized Biography of TE Lawrence
Ranulph Fiennes Lawrence of Arabia: My Journey in Search of T. E. Lawrence
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