Setting The Desert On Fire:T. E. Lawrence And Britain's Secret War In Arabia, 1916 1918 by James Barr

Setting The Desert On Fire:T. E. Lawrence And Britain's Secret War In Arabia, 1916 1918

James Barr

362 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
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It is 1916. The Allies are struggling in the Great War. The Ottoman Sultan calls for a pan-Islamic jihad against all non-Muslims except Germans. But Sharif Husein, ruler of the holy city of Mecca, is smarting under Turkish rule, fomenting Arab nat...

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