The Man in White

Edward Pearce

  • The Golden Warrior: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia by Lawrence James
    Weidenfeld, 404 pp, £19.50, August 1990, ISBN 0 297 81087 1

How does one write the biography of a legend, a legend who is also a controversy, a writer of some distinction, a commander of irregular troops whose effectiveness is still argued about, a sexual question mark, a film hero, an object of debate and a participant in that running Middle East crisis which has proceeded from imbroglio to mess to prospective calamity; how does one satisfactorily tackle a subject variously seen as gallant paladin, pathological liar and career oddity?

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