Becoming Lawrence of Arabia https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/uncategorized/2013/08/becoming-lawrence-of-arabia/

August 15, 2013 | Efraim Karsh

About the author: Efraim Karsh is director of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University, emeritus professor of Middle East and Mediterranean Studies at King’s College London, and editor of the Middle East Quarterly. He is the author most recently of The Tail Wags the Dog: International Politics and the Middle East (Bloomsbury, 2015).

Britain deployed a million men and vast resources to fight the Ottomans during World War I. How did an archeologist with no military training manage to get all the credit?

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