Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia (112 page)

promises made by, 261, 266, 268–69, 377, 465, 486

Schneider Trophy Cup won by, 649

spies for, 183, 221

and Suez Canal, 234, 256, 267, 282, 285, 510, 515

and Sykes-Picot agreement,
see
Sykes-Picot agreement

British army:

allies in World War I, 10, 242, 252, 304, 305

Arab army supported by, 70

CIGS (chief of imperial general staÃ), 45, 48–49, 112, 361

Desert Mounted Corps, 429

at Gallipoli, 4, 263–64, 269, 277, 282, 285, 290, 295

Imperial Camel Brigade, 381, 395–96, 402, 403, 404, 408, 598

RAF compared with, 579–80, 602

Royal Tank Corps, 576–81, 589

Sandhurst training of, 235–36

Turkish army underestimated by, 4

and World War I, 45, 245, 277, 304, 381

XX Corps, 380

British Army Service Corps, 70

British Expeditionary Force (BEF), 105, 304, 381

British Museum, 184, 185, 186, 191, 197, 199, 209, 210, 222, 223

British Museum Library, 565, 618

British Power Boats factory, 653

Brooke, Rupert, 200, 265

Brough, George,
609
, 612, 613

Brough motorcycles, 574, 581, 590, 595, 608, 609–10,
609
, 612–13, 640, 643–44, 659, 678

Bruce, John “Jock,” 581–83, 585–88, 602, 657, 686

Brydon, William, 632

Buchan, John:

Greenmantle
, 26, 623, 625

Lawrence’s correspondence with, 602, 626, 656

Lawrence’s friendship with, 589

on Lawrence’s writing, 620, 623

Bunsen, Sir Maurice de, 270

Bunyan, John, 630

Burma, in World War II, 29

Burmester, Rudolf, 108

Burns, Ken, 694

Burroughs, William, 344

Burton, Isabel, 327

Burton, Percy, 479, 481

Burton, Sir Richard, 94, 321, 327

Buswari Agha, 229, 240

Butler, Lady, 632

Buxton, Robert “Robin,” 403, 404, 598, 602

Cairo:

Arab Bureau in, 7, 109, 273, 284, 477

British in World War I in, 252–62, 265–70, 282–86, 382

Churchill’s meeting in, 513, 514, 516–17

Intelligence Department in, 252–55, 257, 258, 273, 284, 291

Survey Department in, 258

Callwell, C. E.,
Small Wars
, 57, 58

Campbell, Joseph, 176, 178

’e Hero with a Thousand Faces
, 141

Canterbury, archbishop of, 654

Capa, Robert, 558

Cape, Jonathan,
see
Jonathan Cape, publishing house

Carchemish [Iraq], 144, 184–201, 382

British interest in, 184–86, 199, 201, 204–5, 215, 221, 222, 240

Dahoum in, 196, 197, 212, 214, 224, 228, 646

Hittite ruins in, 184–85, 193, 196, 199, 204, 210, 216, 224, 240

Kurds in, 219–22, 226, 240

Lawrence’s archaeological work in, 191–96, 206–10, 214, 223–31, 239–41

Will’s visit to, 225, 228–30

Carden, Admiral, 263

Carnegie, Dale, 479n

Carson (A.S.C. soldier), 362–63

Carson, Sir Edward, 271

Carter, Howard, 203n

Carter, Maurice, 140n

Carton de Wiart, Sir Adrian, 235–36

Casement, Sir Roger, 654–55

Castro, Fidel, 29–30

Catchpole, Corporal, 678

Catherine the Great, 270n

Cecil, Lord Robert, 440, 443, 445, 446, 450, 456, 461

Cecil, William, 443

Chaignon family, 131

Chamberlain, Sir Austen, 650

Chamberlain, Neville, 675n

Chapman, Benjamin, 119, 121, 122

Chapman, Caroline, 530

Chapman, Edith Sarah Hamilton, Lady:

daughters of, 121, 122, 128

and her husband, 126, 127

religious zeal of, 122–23, 132

Chapman, Francis Vansittart, 116

Chapman, Sir Montagu, 116

Chapman, Sir Thomas Robert Tighe,
see
Lawrence, Thomas

Chapman, William, 119, 122

Chase, Harry, 353, 354, 356, 361, 383–88, 480, 492

Chauvel, Sir Henry, 429, 432, 433, 434

Chetwode, Sir Philip, 380, 576–78, 597

Christie, Agatha,
Murder in Mesopotamia
, 202

Churchill, Lord Randolph (Winston’s father), 451

Churchill, Randolph (Winston’s son), 135

Churchill, Winston, 135, 140n, 172, 509–21, 650, 687

and Baldwin, 674–75

books written by, 248, 621

and films, 481, 690n, 691

and Gallipoli, 4, 263–64

and Lady Astor, 644

Lawrence as Middle East adviser to, 510–13, 515–16, 520, 521, 524–30, 533, 539, 540, 625, 626, 671, 684, 689

and Lawrence’s death, 679, 680

Lawrence’s meetings with, 321, 451–52

and Lawrence’s RAF enlistment, 540–41, 542, 608

Lawrence’s requests for help from, 618, 673

and Lloyd George, 509–11

Marlborough biography by, 669

and Middle East Department, 510–21, 526

personal traits of, 271, 303

speeches by, 653–54

Turkish ships requisitioned by, 248

and World War I, 244, 245, 246, 262, 263–64

and World War II, 654

Circassians, 93, 342

Clausewitz, Carl von, 371

Clayton, Gilbert, 274, 277

as Arab Bureau chief, 12, 48–49, 273

and Balfour Declaration, 399

in Cairo, 252, 253, 257, 259, 284

in Jerusalem, 356

and Lawrence’s mental anguish, 378, 400

Lawrence’s reports to, 15, 49, 56–57, 82, 90, 109, 281, 355, 361–62, 513

as military adviser to Churchill, 512

and military strategy, 297, 298

and peace negotiations, 399

and Sykes-Picot Agreement, 277, 280, 306, 361

and Thomas’s film, 387

Clemenceau, Georges, 210, 454, 459–62, 474–75, 476, 507

Clouds Hill, Moreton, Lawrence’s cottage at, 581, 587, 594, 595, 666, 672, 673–74

Clough, Arthur Hugh, “Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth,” 340, 653–54

Cobbold, Lady Evelyn, 238–39, 255

Cockerell, Sydney, 540, 597

Cody, BuÃalo Bill, 480

Collins, Michael, 576

Colonial Office:

ibn Saud supported by, 88

Middle Eastern Department of, 510–21, 526

Columbia Pictures, 691, 692–93, 694

Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur, 654

Congo Free State, atrocities in, 654

Conrad, Joseph, 554, 612

Heart of Darkness
, 654

Constable, publishers, 566, 567, 573

Constantinople:

British archaeological interests in, 185, 215

Lawrence’s travel in, 186–87

Russian ambitions toward, 12, 270n, 280

Cooper, Collin, 649

Council of Ten, 473–74

Coward, Noël, 495n, 656

Cox, Sir Percy Z., 259, 286, 288–89, 517, 523

Crane, C. R., 484

Cromwell, Oliver, 119

Crusades, and French claims in Middle East, 256, 275, 474

Curtis, Lionel:

and All Souls, 533, 579, 587n

Lawrence’s correspondence with, 143, 579, 580, 590, 626, 656

Lawrence’s friendship with, 472, 508, 589

and Lawrence’s funeral, 679

Lawrence’s Middle East views supported by, 506

and Lawrence’s military service, 579, 580, 608

Curtis Brown, literary agency, 565, 567

Curzon, George Nathaniel, 1st Baron:

and British entry into Jerusalem, 352

and Eastern Committee meetings, 445–47, 456, 461

and Feisal, 456, 487, 506

and Lawrence’s Middle East travels, 167–68

and postwar Middle East diplomacy, 506, 507, 509, 512, 524, 525, 526, 528, 533

and Thomas’s biography of Lawrence, 525

Daher (guide), 348

Dahoum (friend),
213

at Carchemish, 196, 197, 212, 214, 224, 228, 646

journey to Aqaba, 237, 238

in later years, 393–94

Lawrence’s friendship with, 210–14, 262

and Lawrence’s illness, 198, 226

Lawrence’s plans for improvement of, 197, 198, 216

personal traits of, 196, 223

Seven Pillars
dedication to, 498–99

travels with Lawrence, 210, 215, 226–27, 228

in Turkish prison, 221, 349

Daily Express, The
(London), 505, 507, 564, 566, 568–69, 571, 630, 672

Daily Mail, The
(London), 505, 566, 571, 572

Daily News, The
(London), 634, 640

Daily Telegraph
(London), 493, 617

Damascus:

Allenby’s arrival in, 435–37

Arabs in disarray in, 430–35, 440

Arab takeover of, 427, 429–30, 452

journey to, 428–30