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Behind the Bastards

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Part One: How Lawrence of Arabia Invented Modern War

NOV 12, 202479 MIN
Behind the Bastards

Part One: How Lawrence of Arabia Invented Modern War

NOV 12, 202479 MIN

Description

Robert tells Margaret Killjoy the whole story of Lawrence of Arabia, a British imperialist, hopeless romantic and asexual icon who invented the concept of modern insurgent war. Through it all we ask: was he a bastard?

(4 Part Series)

https://www.cliohistory.org/thomas-lawrence/lawrence/youth

https://www.investigativeproject.org/4256/guest-column-the-final-death-of-lawrence-of-arabia

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/02/young-lawrence-a-portrait-of-the-legend-as-a-young-man-review

https://www.salon.com/2015/03/01/i%C2%A0realize_now_that_he_was_sexless/

https://www.thehistoryreader.com/military-history/t-e-lawrence-art-war-twenty-first-century/

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/opinions/2016/2/16/what-would-t-e-lawrence-do

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-story-lawrence-arabia-180951857/

https://www.tracesofevil.com/p/blog-page_24.html

https://www.firstworldwar.com/features/telawrence.htm

https://baklol.com/baks/Misc/Great-people-who-were-also-per-_1492/T--E--Lawrence-_18491

https://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2016/sykes-picot-100-years-middle-east-map/index.html

https://stljewishlight.org/top-story/lawrence-of-arabia-or-lawrence-of-zion/

https://theintercept.com/2023/03/23/peter-thiel-jeff-thomas/

https://israelforever.org/programs/balfourinitiative/Implementing_Balfour_Declaration/

https://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Opinion/Implementing-the-Balfour-Declaration

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/manuscript-reveals-dark-side-of-lawrence-of-arabia-s-sex-life-76363.html

https://www.amazon.com/Setting-Desert-Fire-T-Lawrence-ebook/dp/B006072QSG 

https://www.nytimes.com/1970/03/22/archives/the-naked-truth-nothing-withheld-revealed-at-last-the-secret-lives.html

https://www.pbs.org/lawrenceofarabia/players/dahoum.html

Schneider, James. Guerrilla Leader: T. E. Lawrence and the Arab Revolt (p. 52). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

Sattin, Anthony. The Young T. E. Lawrence (pp. 34-35). W. W. Norton & Company. Kindle Edition.

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