The archaeologist smokescreen military intelligence missions in the Middle East were crucial for the allies' ultimate victory with most of the fuel resources for the Central Powers cut by the British forces.

a b Dudney, Robert S. (April 2012). "Lawrence of Airpower" (PDF). Air Force Magazine: 66–70. Archived (PDF) from the original on 10 October 2022.Lawrence lived in a period of strong official opposition to homosexuality, but his writing on the subject was tolerant. He wrote to Charlotte Shaw, "I've seen lots of man-and-man loves: very lovely and fortunate some of them were." [224] He refers to "the openness and honesty of perfect love" on one occasion in Seven Pillars, when discussing relationships between young male fighters in the war. [225] The passage in the front matter is referred to with the single-word tag "Sex". [226] Naval Operation in the Red Sea 1916–1917". The Naval Review. Vol.13 (4thed.). Naval Review. 1925. pp.648–666.

In the summer of 1896, the family moved to 2 Polstead Road in Oxford, where they lived until 1921. [11] Lawrence attended the City of Oxford High School for Boys from 1896 until 1907, [14] where one of the four houses was later named "Lawrence" in his honour; the school closed in 1966. [16] Lawrence and one of his brothers became commissioned officers in the Church Lads' Brigade at St Aldate's Church. [17] Brown (1988) letters to E. M. Forster, 21Dec 1927; Robert Graves, 6Nov 1928; F. L. Lucas, 26March 1929. Carchidi, Victoria K. (1987). Creation Out of the Void: The making of a hero, an epic, a world: T. E. Lawrence. University of Pennsylvania – via University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, MI.

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Strategist of the Desert Dies in Military Hospital". The Guardian. 19 May 1935 . Retrieved 16 August 2012. During the closing years of the war, Lawrence sought to convince his superiors in the British government that Arab independence was in their interests, but he met with mixed success. [126] The secret Sykes-Picot Agreement between France and Britain contradicted the promises of independence that he had made to the Arabs and frustrated his work. [127] Post-war years [ edit ] Wilhelm Wassmuss (1880–1931), German diplomat and spy, known as "Wassmuss of Persia" and compared to Lawrence Outline chronology: 1918 (Oct–Dec)". T. E. Lawrence Studies. Archived from the original on 5 June 2018 . Retrieved 24 November 2018. Lawrence left The Mint unpublished, [198] a memoir of his experiences as an enlisted man in the Royal Air Force (RAF). For this, he worked from a notebook that he kept while enlisted, writing of the daily lives of enlisted men and his desire to be a part of something larger than himself. [199] The book is stylistically different from Seven Pillars of Wisdom, using sparse prose as opposed to the complicated syntax found in Seven Pillars. It was published posthumously, edited by his brother Arnold. [200]

There is considerable evidence that Lawrence was a masochist. He wrote in his description of the Dera'a beating that "a delicious warmth, probably sexual, was swelling through me," and he also included a detailed description of the guards' whip in a style typical of masochists' writing. [228] In later life, Lawrence arranged to pay a military colleague to administer beatings to him, [229] and to be subjected to severe formal tests of fitness and stamina. [212] John Bruce first wrote on this topic, including some other statements that were not credible, but Lawrence's biographers regard the beatings as established fact. [230] French novelist André Malraux admired Lawrence but wrote that he had a "taste for self-humiliation, now by discipline and now by veneration; a horror of respectability; a disgust for possessions". [231] Biographer Lawrence James wrote that the evidence suggested a "strong homosexual masochism", noting that he never sought punishment from women. [232] Orlans, Harold (2002). T. E. Lawrence: Biography of a broken hero. Jefferson, NC / London: McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-1307-2. Max von Oppenheim (1860–1946), German-Jewish lawyer, diplomat and archaeologist. Lawrence called his travelogue "the best book on the [Middle East] area I know". Lawrence, T. E. (2003). Seven Pillars of Wisdom: The Complete 1922 Text. Castle Hill Press. ISBN 978-1-873141-39-7.Crucial to the Zionist effort was broadening its appeal to western policymakers, prominent among whom was a breed of well-heeled British romantics who floated around the Middle East offering solutions of breathtaking (and often contradictory) simplicity to problems that even now are considered intractable. The Yorkshire landowner Sir Mark Sykes was the nonpareil of these meddlesome amateurs; in 1916 he carved up the Middle East in a secret deal with France, only to propose an alliance of Jews, Arabs and Armenians that would freeze the French out. Sykes's Christian faith was cheered by the idea of a Jewish return to the Holy Land; he adopted Zionism and became an ally of Aaronsohn. It was Sykes who announced the British cabinet's decision to endorse a "Jewish national home" with the immortal words – to its future first president – "Dr Weizmann, it's a boy!" Selwood, Dominic (19 May 2017). "On this day in 1935: The death of Lawrence of Arabia". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 11 January 2022 . Retrieved 19 January 2020.