Seven Pillars of Wisdom - A Triumph

This book describes the revolt in Arabia against the Turks, as it appeared to an Englishman who took part. Round this tentpole of a military chronicle, Lawrence has hung an unexampled fabric of portraits, descriptions, philosophies, emotions, adventures, dreams. He has brought to his task a fastidious scholarship, an impeccable memory, a style nicely woven of Oxfordisms and Doughty, an eye unparalleled... a profound distrust of himself, a still profounder faith. It ranks with the greatest books ever written in the English language. As a narrative of war and adventure is it unsurpassable...