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Lawrence and the Arabs
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Title Details
Running Time
14 Hrs. 10 Min.
Description
Beginning his life-long affair with the Middle East, T.E. Lawrence -- Lawrence of Arabia -- made his first journey to the region, a four-month walking tour of Syria studying the Crusaders' castles, while still a student at Oxford. He later returned to the area as a archaeologist and at the outbreak of World War I was attached to British army intelligence in Egypt. In 1916 he set out on his greatest adventure. With no backing, Lawrence joined Arab forces facing almost insurmountable odds in a rebellion against Turkish domination. His brilliance as a desert war strategist made him a hero among the Arabs, a legendary figure throughout the world, and earned him the moniker Lawrence of Arabia. Lawrence, though, had a near-pathological dislike of publicity and thus began a life of self-imposed obscurity at T.E. Shaw, an anonymous soldier in the RAF.
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