Seven Pillars of Wisdom

It ranks with the greatest books ever written in the English language.As a narrative of war and adventure...it is unsurpassable -- Winston Churchill Round this tent-pole of a military chronicle, T. E. has hung an unexampled fabric of portraits, descriptions, philosophies, emotions, adventures, dreams -- E.M. Forster I am not much of a hero-worshipper but I could have followed T.E. Lawrence over the edge of the world -- John Buchan Seven Pillars of Wisdom is one of the major statements about the fighting experience of the First World War -- Angus Calder Emotional and mythic * Guardian * More recently he has won an amazing new reputation as the most perceptive writer on the subject of guerrilla warfare, so that his memoir about the Arab Revolt - Seven Pillars Of Wisdom, the basis for the movie - is now a ""must read"" in Iraq. It is the best textbook for conventional forces facing the problem of having to cope with an enemy who has no known rules, who emerges out of nowhere and strikes at random * Sunday Express * His book is still a wonderful, exciting and sometimes moving account of a great adventure * Scotsman * Seven Pillars, elegantly written and deservedly regarded as a classic, also remains fascinating in its own right, as military history, for its close observation of the desert life of the nomadic Arab tribesmen, and perhaps most of all for its insights into the character of the still-enigmatic Lawrence * Washington Post * Seminal * Daily Mail * The Seven Pillars of Wisdom is about the war in the desert in the way that Moby Dick is about catching a whale -- E.M. Forster