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Lawrence's own account of his experience after the Arab Revolt - when he joined the RAF under a new name.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the New Edition by Anthony Sattin
Note by A. W. Lawrence to the First Edition

Part 1: The Raw Material
Part 2: In the Mill
Part 3: Service

About the Author

Thomas Edward Lawrence was born in 1888. Educated at Oxford, he was later made a research fellow of All Souls College. During the First World War he was attached to the Hejaz Expeditionary Force and later transferred to General Allenby s staff. In 1921 he became Advisor on Arab Affairs in the Colonial Office. In 1927, uncomfortable with his 'Lawrence of Arabia' legend, Lawrence joined the RAF. He was killed in a motorbike accident in 1935 at the age of 47. Author of the classic Seven Pillars of Wisdom and its abridged version, Revolt in the Desert, Lawrence also wrote a prose translation of Homer's Odyssey.

Reviews

A severely chiselled picture of barrack life: Joycean in style, sometimes brilliant in evocation, structured as a series of set-pieces, showing a decided advance in control over Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
*Irving Howe*

The Mint, written in a very different style to Seven Pillars of Wisdom, is, like Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, a work of observation written by a highly intelligent man who found himself effectively imprisoned. Lawrence distilled its spare descriptions from events that he had witnessed over and over again.
*Jeremy Wilson*