Excellent biog. of Lawrence, details time in Arabia pre-WWI

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Submitted by Mike Smith, M.A. (United States), Jan 19, 2010 at 17:05

a biog. by Jeremy Wilson details Lawrence's archaeology in Northern Iraq 1909-14, with his Oxford professor who was a spy for Britain in that region, and his view of Arabs. When the war began Aug 4 his survey of Syria & Palestine was the newest done.

Mike Smith, M.A.

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