ash-Sha’alan, Trad, 324
Shah, Jemadar Hassan, 279
Shakir, Sharif, 218, 219–20
Shallala (Lawrence’s Spring), 265
Shararat, 154
Sharraf, Sharif, 192
Shaw, Charlotte, 17, 45, 56, 76, 247, 294, 295, 310, 361, 371
Shaw, George Bernard, 37, 291, 349, 354, 362, 363
Shaw, T.E., Lawrence as, 367
Sidon, 64
Simpson, Colin, 370
Sinai, 115–27, 259–60
traverse of, 254–60
Slieve Foy(ship), 253
Smith, George, 78, 80
Snow, John, 29
socialism, 78
speed, importance of, 374
sporting prowess, role of, 24–5
Staples, George, 335
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 9
Stewart, Desmond, 76
Stirling, Major Frank, 255, 272
and rape at Dara’a, 285
at Dara’a, 336
St Martin’s Church, Wareham, 377
Stones of Venice, The(Ruskin), 40
Storrs, Ronald, 35, 129, 168–70, 172–3, 291
‘Abdallah and, 126
relationship with Lawrence, 133–4
Hussain’s letter and, 140
and cowardice of Bedu, 195
Strange Case of Dr jekyll and Mr Hyde, The(Stevenson), 9
Suez Canal, 115, 126, 134
Jamal Pasha’s attack on, 138
suicide, 372
Sulayman the Magnificent, 54
Swann, Air Vice-Marshal Sir Oliver, 364
Swinburne, Algernon, 76
Sydney Smith, Clare, 27, 42, 56, 347
Sykes-Picot agreement, 143, 210, 240, 245, 317, 343
Syria
and Oxford, 55–74
and Britain, 109–114
division of, 344
Tafas
massacre at, 313–14, 330–34
in Seven Pillars, 333
Tafilah, 299–310
Ta’if, 160–62
Taleb, Sayid, 145
Tel Ahmar, 90
Tel ash-Shahm, 310–12
Tel ash-Shehab
attack on, 278–9, 279–81
bridge at, 326–7
Tennyson, Alfred Lord, 28
Thesiger, Wilfred
on homosexuality, 233–4
on cruelty, 332
Thomas, Lowell, 241, 354
lecturing on Lawrence, 351–2
Tigris Corps, 147
Towayha, as raiders, 226–7
Townshend, Major-General Sir
Charles, 143, 148
Trenchard, Lord, 359, 360
as father-figure, 14
Tuke, Henry Scott, 26, 33
Turkey, coup d’йtat in, 49
Twenty-Seven Articles(Lawrence), 208
al-‘Ula, assault on, 229 ‘Umayyads, 53
Umm Surab, 327
Umm Tayeh, 322, 323
Uranians, 26, 233
Urfa, 69–71
‘Utayba, 154
Vehib Bey, 124, 136
vengeance, Bedu and, 154
Vickery, Major Charles, 199, 201–2
and capture of Aqaba, 228
Victoria Cross, 247
Vilayet system, 123–4
von Stotzingen, Baron Othmar, 157
Wadi ‘Ais, 204–25
Wadi Hafira, 273
Wadi Hamdh, 204–25
Wadi Ithm, 118
Wadi Khitan, shooting at, 211–14
Wadi Musa, 299
Wadi Rum, Lawrence at, 265
Wadi Safra, capture of, 191
Wahid, Haj, 81, 92, 93, 94, 97, 104–5
and malaria, 101
Wasta, 180
Wavell, A.P., 298
Wejh, 189–203
Wemyss, Admiral, 189–90, 199, 202
‘White Man’s Burden’, 86, 112
White, Stephen, 287
Who’s Who, Lawrence in, 352
Wilde, Oscar, 26–7
Wilderness of Zin, The(Lawrence and
Woolley), 122
will-power, 16
Williams, A.T.P., 42, 46
Williamson, Henry, 375, 376
Wilson, Lieutenant-Colonel Cyril, 165, 168–70
and attack on Aqaba, 231
Wilson, Jeremy, 76, 291, 296
rape at Dara’a and, 297–8
Wilson, President, 345
Wingate, Sir Reginald, 133, 159, 165, 189–90
Winterton, Lord, 319, 328–9
With Lawrence in Arabia(Thomas), 372
Wood, Lieutenant, 277
Wool Hospital, 377
Woolley, Leonard, 39, 84, 86, 95–6, 105, 106, 115, 121, 132, 138, 208
as director at Carchemish, 93
at Birejik, 100
Yahya, Imam, 136
Yanbu’, and Wejh, 189–203
Yarmuk operation, and Dara’a
incident, 273–98
Yeats-Brown, Francis, 37
Yells, Sergeant, 264, 269, 270–71, 271
Young Turks’ revolution, 49–54
Young, Captain Hubert, 111, 145, 162, 292, 297
lying and truth about, 288
as understudy of Lawrence, 315
quarrel with Lawrence, 316, 322, 324
and train explosions, 326
and honours, 343
Younghusband, General, 147
Zaki Bey, 183
Zakkari, Ahmad, 121
Zayd, Sharif, 164–5, 191, 300, 306–7, 344
CONTENTS
List of Plates
List of Maps
Introduction: The Valley of the Moon
PART ONE: THE WANDERER, 1888–1916
1. Apparent Queen Unveiled Her Peerless Light
2. Dominus Illuminatio Mea
3. Nothing Which Qualified Him to be an Ordinary Member of Society
4. The Sultan Drank Tea as Usual
5. A Rather Remarkable Young Man
6. Mr Hogarth is Going Digging
7. The Baron in the Feudal System
8. Peace in Mesopotamia Such as Has Not Been Seen for Generations
9. The Insurance People Have Nailed Me Down
10. Cairo is Unutterable Things
PART TWO: THE WARRIOR, 1916–1918
11. The Biggest Thing in the Near East Since 1550
12. Fallen Like a Sword into Their Midst
13. Not an Army But a World is Moving upon Wejh
14. I Do Not Suppose Any Englishman Before Ever Had Such a Place
15. It is Not Known What are the Present Whereabouts of Captain Lawrence
16. An Amateurish Buffalo-Billy Sort of Performance
17. Ahmad ibn Baqr, a Circassian from Qunaytra
18. The Most Ghastly Material to Build into a Design
19. My Dreams Puffed out Like Candles in the Strong Wind of Success
PART THREE :THE MAGICIAN, 1918–1935
20. Colonel Lawrence Still Goes on; Only I Have Stepped Out of the Way
21. In Speed We Hurl Ourselves Beyond the Body
Acknowledgements
Notes on the Text
Bibliography
Index
LIST OF PLATES
COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHS
Photography by Mariantonietta Peru
1. Lawrence’s Spring, Jordan
2. Pharaoh’s Island, off Sinai
3. Ruins of a traditional house, Yanbu’, Saudi Arabia