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A thrilling and revelatory narrative of one of the most epic and consequential periods in 20th century history – the Arab Revolt and the secret “great game” to control the Middle East
The Arab Revolt against the Turks in World War One was, in the words of T.E. Lawrence, “a sideshow of a sideshow.” Amidst the slaughter in European trenches, the Western combatants paid scant attention to the Middle Eastern theater. As a result, the conflict was shaped to a remarkable degree by a small handful of adventurers and low-level officers far removed from the corridors of power.
Curt Prüfer was an effete academic attached to the German embassy in Cairo, whose clandestine role was to foment Islamic jihad against British rule. Aaron Aaronsohn was a renowned agronomist and committed Zionist who gained the trust of the Ottoman governor of Syria. William Yale was the fallen scion of the American aristocracy, who traveled the Ottoman Empire on behalf of Standard Oil, dissembling to the Turks in order gain valuable oil concessions. At the center of it all was Lawrence. In early 1914 he was an archaeologist excavating ruins in the sands of Syria; by 1917 he was the most romantic figure of World War One, battling both the enemy and his own government to bring about the vision he had for the Arab people.
The intertwined paths of these four men – the schemes they put in place, the battles they fought, the betrayals they endured and committed – mirror the grandeur, intrigue and tragedy of the war in the desert. Prüfer became Germany’s grand spymaster in the Middle East. Aaronsohn constructed an elaborate Jewish spy-ring in Palestine, only to have the anti-Semitic and bureaucratically-inept British first ignore and then misuse his organization, at tragic personal cost. Yale would become the only American intelligence agent in the entire Middle East – while still secretly on the payroll of Standard Oil. And the enigmatic Lawrence rode into legend at the head of an Arab army, even as he waged secret war against his own nation’s imperial ambitions.
Based on years of intensive primary document research, LAWRENCE IN ARABIA definitively overturns received wisdom on how the modern Middle East was formed. Sweeping in its action, keen in its portraiture, acid in its condemnation of the destruction wrought by European colonial plots, this is a book that brilliantly captures the way in which the folly of the past creates the anguish of the present.
Scott Anderson is a veteran war correspondent who has reported from Lebanon, Israel, Egypt, Northern Ireland, Chechnya, Sudan, Bosnia, El Salvador and many other strife-torn countries. A frequent contributor to the New York Times Magazine, his work has also appeared in Vanity Fair, Esquire, Harper’s and Outside. He is the author of novels Moonlight Hotel and Triage and of non-fiction books The Man Who Tried to Save the World and The 4 O’Clock Murders, and co-author of War Zones and Inside The League with his brother Jon Lee Anderson.
An engaging and enjoyable book. It gives history a human touch and its players a sense of destiny. It presents the course of history as being dominated by short-sighted national interests yet idealism persists. How l love the theme of tragic heroes! The blue-eyed "warrior of the desert" won the battle only to see his dream lost.
评分看了三分之一放弃去看中文版了????写的还是很好的,只是太多的生词让人望而却步了…
评分Non-fiction写得如此引人入胜不容易。
评分四线交织却不觉得散乱无章,把non-fiction写出了fiction 的味道,《赛克斯皮克特协定》《麦克马洪-侯赛因通信》《贝尔福宣言》...中东之后一个世纪的命运,在这些或愚蠢或贪婪或狂妄的人物缔结的一份份互相矛盾的文件条约中,已然注定
评分An engaging and enjoyable book. It gives history a human touch and its players a sense of destiny. It presents the course of history as being dominated by short-sighted national interests yet idealism persists. How l love the theme of tragic heroes! The blue-eyed "warrior of the desert" won the battle only to see his dream lost.
《阿拉伯的劳伦斯》 [美]斯科特·安德森著 陆大鹏译 社会科学文献出版社 2014年9月第一版 672页,72.00元 斯科特·安德森这本书的立意就是要告诉读者,当前中东的局势,是经由欧洲列强发动的第一次世界大战塑造的,这其中英法这两个老牌帝国主义国家应负主...
评分《阿拉伯的劳伦斯》 [美]斯科特·安德森著 陆大鹏译 社会科学文献出版社 2014年9月第一版 672页,72.00元 斯科特·安德森这本书的立意就是要告诉读者,当前中东的局势,是经由欧洲列强发动的第一次世界大战塑造的,这其中英法这两个老牌帝国主义国家应负主...
评分T·E·劳伦斯一直是位极具争议的人物。他那部著名的自传《智慧的七柱》,已成为研究一战的权威历史著作之一,同时也跻身英语文学重要财产之列。以一位英军下级军官的身份,劳伦斯却对整个中东百年历史造成了深远影响,被称为“阿拉伯的劳伦斯”,直至今日,中东政治生态中还能...
评分T·E·劳伦斯一直是位极具争议的人物。他那部著名的自传《智慧的七柱》,已成为研究一战的权威历史著作之一,同时也跻身英语文学重要财产之列。以一位英军下级军官的身份,劳伦斯却对整个中东百年历史造成了深远影响,被称为“阿拉伯的劳伦斯”,直至今日,中东政治生态中还能...
评分这是一部关于第一次世界大战期间驰骋中东战场的英国军官——T.E.劳伦斯的最新传记作品。以劳伦斯和其他几位具有同样或相似身份的人物的经历为主线,为我们描绘了一幅宏大的一战期间的中东形势图,其间充斥着战争,协约国的利益瓜分,犹太复国主义的活动,中东旧有统治者为保全...
Lawrence in Arabia pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024