Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia (114 page)

and ST 200 handbook, 653

Gasein (goldsmith), 300

Gasim (stranger from Maan), 86–87, 418

Gaza:

Allenby’s attack on, 323, 325, 326, 331–34, 352

defense of, 285

Egyptian Expeditionary Force at, 4, 104–5

stalemate at, 104–6

Turkish control of, 21, 41, 59, 89, 91, 284–85, 291

Gee, Sergeant Major, 544, 545

Genet, Jean, 344

Geneva Conventions, 85n

Geographical Section of General Staà (GSGS), 250–51, 252

Georges-Picot, François:

flight at war’s outbreak, 35n, 266

and Jerusalem, 353, 356

and Sykes-Picot agreement, 38, 275–81

and Syria, 440, 442, 445

George V, king of England:

and Feisal, 465

honors oÃered to Lawrence by, 447–50, 486, 516

and Lawrence’s accident and death, 679, 680

Lawrence’s audiences with, 440, 447–50

Lawrence’s gifts to, 55n, 449

and Lawrence’s military status, 439–40, 486

Lawrence’s relationship with, 46, 666

and politicians, 447, 450

as stamp collector, 522

and supporters of the Arab Revolt, 44

Thomas’s show attended by, 481

and World War I, 663

German army:

discipline in, 227

in World War I, 10, 232, 242, 246, 275, 378, 381

German navy, and Turkish navy, 248–50

Germany:

aircraft supplied to Turkey by, 14

and archaeological sites, 184, 216

in Central Powers, 232, 233

colonial possessions of, 453

and
Hindenburg
, 646

Nazi regime in, 531

postwar demands on, 454, 468

railways built by, 168, 199, 202, 208, 209, 214, 215, 240

surrender of, 453

Turkish army supported by, 20, 36, 104, 285, 287, 311, 391, 411, 416, 421, 423, 424

zeppelins, 646–47

Gettysburg, battle of, 367

Geziret Faraun, island of, 238

Gibson Girls, 644

Gilbert, Martin, 248

Godefroy de Bouillon, 275

Goltz, Colmar Freiherr von der, 287–88

Gone with the Wind
(film), 694

Gordon, Charles George (Gordon of Khartoum), 12, 45, 321, 478

Graves, Philip, 255

Graves, Robert:

Goodbye to All That
, 265, 624n

Lawrence and the Arabian Adventure
, 321, 611, 624–25, 627, 662, 689, 696

on Lawrence at Oxford, 161–62, 174, 491

on Lawrence’s audience with George V, 448, 449, 450

Lawrence’s correspondence with, 446, 447, 448, 524, 656, 669, 671

on Lawrence’s early years, 159

Lawrence’s friendship with, 508, 589

Lawrence’s obituary updated by, 671

on Lawrence’s personal traits, 140n, 666–67

Lawrence’s version of his story to, 321, 442, 446, 447, 448, 577

and RFC history, 598

and
Seven Pillars
, 497, 592

and Turkish army handbook, 258

Great Depression, 619

Greek-Turkish War (1897), 246

Green, Thomas Hill, 136

Greene, Graham, 449

Grey, Sir Edward, 181, 242, 260, 270

Guevara, Che, 686

Guilfoyle, W. J. Y., 560–61, 566, 569, 574, 575

Guinness, Alec, 693

Gulf of Aqaba, 1–2

Gurschner, Herbert, portrait of Lawrence by, 684,
685

Guweira:

Arab encampment at, 312, 358, 374–75

motor road to, 359

Hacim (Hajim) Bey, 342–43, 346, 351, 421

Haidar Pasha, 168

Haifa, British capture of, 412

Haig, Sir Douglas, 105, 323

Haj Wahid (cook), 207

Hall-Smith, Guthrie, 503

Hall-Smith, Janet (Laurie), 131, 159–61, 227, 490–91, 503–4, 529, 658

Hamed the Moor, 72–73, 74, 87

Hamid Fakhri Bey (Fakhri Pasha):

Arab strategies against, 41, 60, 63

and Armenian genocide, 37

Beni Ali village destroyed by, 37

at Medina, 66–67, 70

at Tafileh, 365, 367, 370

Hamoudi, Sheikh, 193, 196, 197, 198, 211, 226–27, 228, 262

Hamra:

arrival in, 31–32

departure from, 42

Hardinge, Lord Charles, 272

Hardy, Mrs. Thomas, 679

Hardy, Thomas, 589, 590, 594, 597, 608, 617, 618, 626

Harmsworth, Hon. Esmond, 673

Hashemite family:

contest for power, 506

Lawrence’s ambitions for, 80, 524

presence in Iraq and Jordan, 511, 517

Hassan Chowish, 342

Hassan Shah, 327

Hedley, Walter Coote, 233, 251, 252

Hejaz Operations StaÃ, 374, 375

Hejaz region:

Christians murdered in, 16–17

desert blindness in, 312–13

desert of, 23–24

holiest Islam cities in, 10

hostility toward Europeans in, 21, 24

Hussein’s position in, 88, 299

as independent Arab state, 292

journeys to interior of, 18–21, 49

military strategy in, 83, 379–80

motor vehicles used in, 357–58, 359–60, 377, 396, 626

railway in, 21, 24,
308

supply route across, 12

wells in, 21, 25, 43, 60, 71, 86, 92, 95

Hemingway, Ernest, 73, 672

A Farewell to Arms
, 319, 353

Henry II, king of England, 405

Herbert, Aubrey:

and Arab Bureau, 284

and Intelligence Department, Cairo, 252, 253, 255

at Kut Al-Amara, 5, 288–90

peace negotiations with Turks, 398

Herodotus, 594

Hewlett, Maurice, 205, 206, 218

Higham, David, 665

Hindenberg
, 646

Hippocleides, 594–95n

Hirtzel, Sir Arthur, 454–55, 485

Hitler, Adolf, 675

Hittites:

ancient city at Carchemish, 184–85, 193, 196, 199, 204, 210, 214, 216, 224, 240

facial features of, 196

Tell Ahmar mound, 197

HMS
Agincourt
, 248

HMS
Du¤erin
, 109, 292, 299

HMS
Duke of Edinburgh
, 223

HMS
Erin
, 248

HMS
Euryalus
, 44

HMS
Fox
, 292

HMS
Gloucester
, 457

HMS
Hampshire
, 291

HMS
Hardinge
, 301, 302

HMS
Humber
, 311, 326

HMS
Orion
, 463–64,
464

HMS
Suva
, 43–44, 59

Hoare, Sir Samuel, 572, 575, 602, 639, 640

Ho Chi Minh, 29, 686

Hodgson, W. G., 414

Hogarth, David G., 181–83, 322, 506

and
Arab Bulletin
, 283

and Arab Bureau, 252, 273, 274, 284

and Arab Revolt, 292

and Ashmolean Museum, 141, 155, 182, 222

in Beirut, 189–90

and Carchemish site, 185–86, 191, 193, 195, 208, 209–10, 215, 222, 239, 240

death of, 626, 662

and Lawrence’s interest in archaeology, 141, 166, 183, 190, 201, 224

and Lawrence’s mental anguish, 376–78, 400, 590, 591

and Lawrence’s travels, 188–89, 335

as mentor to Lawrence, 7, 155–56, 166, 177, 182, 183, 190, 195, 204, 210, 234, 250, 251, 355, 377–78, 484–85, 489, 513, 608

and Palestine Exploration Fund, 234

portrait of, 675

and
Seven Pillars
, 496, 497, 593, 598

and Thomas’s film, 387

Holocaust, 400, 468, 531

Holroyd, Sir Michael, 397, 570, 596

House, Edward, 454n, 492

Howard, G. Wren, 567

Howard, Leslie, 668, 691

Howeitat tribe:

Auda Abu Tayi as leader of, 68–69, 81, 87, 99, 301, 330

Bell’s information on, 242

at Guweira, 312

hostility toward Europeans by, 403

military actions of, 99, 100, 311, 318

on the move, 88–89, 90

Hughes, Howard, 637

Humphreys, Sir Francis, 634, 635

Hurley, W. M. M., 629

Hussein, Saddam, 532

Hussein ibn Ali-el-Aun, sharif,
304

and British funding, 285

British negotiations with, 82, 525–27, 528

and British promises, 14, 266, 399–400, 401, 452, 454, 455

British support requested (and then refused) by, 27, 60