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The waters of Babylon : a novel of Lawrence after Arabia

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Description: The author's father was in the Air Force with Lawrence, and using his father's recollections, Stevens creates a tale of the man who gained the spotlight and then "attempted a retreat into anonymity, abandoning his celebrity and joining the Royal Air Force--not as a ranking officer, as would have been his due, but as a regular airman, an erk."--Jacket.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [2000]
Call number: 626752
Creator: Stevens, David (1940-2018)(Opens in new tab)
ISBN: 0684862107; 9780684862101
Dimensions: 24 cm
Associated people: Metcalf, Edwards H.
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Lawrence : the uncrowned king of Arabia

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"T. E. Lawrence, "Lawrence of Arabia," began his role in World War I as a map clerk and ended it as one of the greatest military heroes of the century. He altered the face of the Middle East, helped the Arabs gain their freedom after five hundred years of domination by the Ottoman Turks, and almost single-handedly formulated many of the precepts of modern guerrilla warfare. Yet he refused any honors for his achievements and spent much of the rest of his life in the ranks of the army and the Royal Air Force, in near obscurity." "A brilliant propagandist, rhetorician, and manipulator, Lawrence deliberately turned his life into a conundrum and set out to mystify those who came after him, thereby assuring his place as a mythical cult-figure for posterity." "But who was the real man behind the masks? Desert explorer and Arab scholar Michael Asher set out to solve this riddle of appearances. Retracing many of Lawrence's desert Journeys, he gained startling new insights into his character. The result is biography combining the techniques of the detective story, travelogue, epic history, and high drama."--Jacket.

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Lawrence : the uncrowned king of Arabia

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Hunter green

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"A truly original force in contemporary art--recently described as 'the Emily Dickinson of photography'--Weifenbach creates images based on scenes familiar to any viewer, with results that are dream-like and hauntingly familiar"--Publisher's description.

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Lawrence of Arabia

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An inordinately complex man who has been labeled everything from hero, to charlatan, to sadist, Thomas Edward Lawrence blazed his way to glory in the Arabian desert, then sought anonymity as a common soldier under an assumed name. The story opens with the death of Lawrence in a motorcycle accident in London at the age of 47, then flashbacks to recount his adventures: as a young intelligence officer in Cairo in 1916, he is given leave to investigate the progress of the Arab revolt against the Turks in World War I. In the desert, he organizes a guerrilla army and--for two years--leads the Arabs in harassing the Turks with desert raids, train-wrecking and camel attacks. Eventually, he leads his army northward and helps a British General destroy the power of the Ottoman Empire.

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Barnes, Florence (Pancho) Lowe

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Approx. 20 items, a collection of LAT clip copies, mostly from 1929-1932, 1952-1954 and the 1960s, on "Pancho" Barnes. She is refereed to in stories (ca. 1930) as a "San Marino aviatrix," she later (ca. 1952) brought suit against the Air Force for damaging her business (bar, hotel, etc) in the Mojave Desert near Edwards Air Force Base, and in the 1960s she made peace with the Air Force but also ran into trouble with the Courts on her own.

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