Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia (115 page)

claim relinquished to Palestine, 511

and groundwork for Arab Revolt, 9, 10, 85, 259–61

as king of the Hejaz, 299–300, 306, 366, 405, 432, 449, 452, 524, 525

kingship sought by, 40, 41, 42n, 91, 277, 299, 430

McMahon’s correspondence with, 267–70, 272, 281, 399, 452, 453, 525

and military strategy, 284, 298, 299

and outbreak of Arab Revolt, 291–92, 293

and Paris Peace Conference, 452, 457

rivalries of, 34, 40, 55, 88, 267, 269, 272, 299, 404–5, 453, 483–84, 505, 515, 524, 525, 526

Saudi defeat of, 483–84

as sharif of Mecca, 11, 19, 70, 88, 404

sons of, 10, 15, 16, 18, 22, 32, 33, 40, 62, 70, 259, 298, 455, 483, 528

supporters of, 85, 88, 483, 506

and Syria, 40, 414

wives of, 22

Hutchinsons, publisher, 525

Hyde, H. Montgomery, 590n

ibn Saud:

as emir of Rashids, 88

full name of, 34n

kingship of, 277n, 279

and oil, 531

rivalry between Hussein’s family and, 34, 40, 55, 88, 267, 269, 272, 299, 453, 483–84, 505, 515, 524, 525, 526, 625

supporters of, 88, 267, 272, 405n, 453, 483, 484, 506

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

Imperial Ottoman Museum, Constantinople, 185

Imperial War Museum, 449

India:

ambitions in Middle East, 256–57, 261, 286

Arab Revolt opposed in, 272

as British colonial possession, 13, 48, 256, 259, 277n, 278, 630, 686

dirigible test flight to, 647

the “great game” in, 631–32

ibn Saud supported by, 88, 267, 272, 453, 483, 506

involvement in Arab Revolt, 11, 88

Lawrence’s RAF period in, 618, 620–22, 623–24, 630, 634–35

Muslim populations in, 11, 256

Russian threats toward, 13

safe air route to, 510

“Indiana Jones,” 203n

Indian army, Lawrence’s dislike of, 426–27, 428, 455

Indian Army Expeditionary Force, 257

Inman, H. T., 144

Iraq:

borders of, 517

British ambitions in, 267, 507

British troops in, 506, 507, 514

creation of, 697, 698

diverse populations in, 517

Feisal as first king of, 277n, 405, 449, 455, 515, 516–18, 519, 523–24

flag of, 272, 517

Hashemite presence in, 511

Lawrence’s recommendations for, 451, 455, 537, 625–26, 697

local unrest in, 509, 517

modern-day wars in, 30

oil in, 510, 531

RAF base in, 514–15

successors to, 532

Ireland:

Chapman family in, 119–24, 502

Easter Rising in, 654

nationalists in, 654–55

Protestant Ascendancy in, 119

Irish Academy of Letters, 119

Irish Free State, 576

Ismail Pasha, Khedive, 234, 343

Israel:

creation of, 39, 276, 399–400, 511, 686

and Holocaust, 400

and Jewish national home, 39, 520

see also
Zionism

Jaafar Pasha:

and Arab army, 68, 70, 299, 306, 357, 366, 404–5

British decoration awarded to, 404

as Feisal’s chief of staÃ, 299, 366

and Maan, 390, 394

at Tafileh, 368

Jackson, Stonewall (Thomas), 60

Jacobsen, J. P., 552

Jane, L. Cecil, 151, 155, 162, 163, 177

Jaussen, Père, 255

Jefer, 92, 95, 403

Jemadar Shah, 331

Jemal Pasha,
see
Ahmed Jemal Pasha

Jerablus:

archaeological sites of, 184, 191, 206, 215

licorice company in, 191

Jericho:

Allenby’s attack on, 375, 376

as military goal, 357, 359, 374

Jerusalem:

Allenby’s conquest of, 351–53, 356, 361

British control of, 460, 461

and Crusades, 275

holy city of, 10, 40, 270n, 307, 352

as military goal, 83, 89, 105, 112, 297, 307, 351

Thomas in, 354

Jesus College, Oxford University:

Lawrence’s entrance into, 151–52, 153

Lawrence’s work at, 28, 162–65, 176–77, 178, 186, 202, 217

Lawrence’s years at, 155–56, 173–74, 182, 185–86

Jewish Chronicle
, 463

Jidda:

British consulate in, 10

journey to, 8, 9–13, 293

Lawrence and Storrs in, 14–17, 615

Wilson in, 11, 14, 49, 51, 60, 300

John, Augustus, 397, 504, 508, 540, 671, 675, 679

John Bull
, 643

Johns, W. E., 544–47

Jonathan Cape, publishing house:

and Doughty’s book, 557

and Garnett, 555, 565, 567

handsome books produced by, 567

Lawrence’s translation work for, 594

and
Revolt in the Desert
, 614, 622n, 602–3

and
Seven Pillars
, 555, 565, 567, 571, 572–73, 574, 575, 602–3, 614

Jones, R. V., 630

Jordan:

Abdulla as first king of, 14, 16, 80, 277n, 405, 444, 511, 515, 518, 519, 520, 523, 524, 528–29

British control of, 477, 529, 697

creation of, 520–21, 537, 697, 698

flag of, 272

Hashemite Kingdom of, 511, 519

impoverishment of, 698

Joyce, James,
Ulysses
, 630

Joyce, Pierce Charles:

at Aqaba, 298, 357–58

and Hejaz Operations StaÃ, 374, 375

Lawrence’s plans supported by, 299, 357–58, 408

and military strategy, 381, 382, 390

and Weizmann-Feisal meeting, 399

Juheina tribe, 58

Junner, Elizabeth, 124, 125–26

Jurf el Derawish, railway line at, 364

Kafr Ammar, archaeological site at, 202–3

Karachi, RAF in, 621–22, 623–24

Karam Shah, 634

Kennington, Eric:

Lawrence’s friendship with, 508, 589, 590, 671

and Lawrence’s funeral, 679

Leicester Gallery display organized by, 621

memorial to Lawrence by, 683–84

and
Seven Pillars
, 511, 513, 522, 555, 598, 621

Kenyon, Sir Frederic, 234

Kerak, as military goal, 359

Kerensky, Aleksandr Fyodorovich, 305

Keynes, John Maynard, 200

Khalid (at Tafas), 423–24

Khalil Pasha, 5, 287, 288–90

Khartoum, Sudan, 11–12

King, H. C., 484

Kipling, Rudyard, 494

Barrack Room Ballads
, 535

Kirkbride, British officer, 375

Kissinger, Henry A., 515

Kitchener, Herbert Horatio, 1st Earl Kitchener, 2

and Carchemish site, 240

death of, 291

military career of, 7, 12

and Palestine map survey, 63, 83, 232

and plans for Arab Revolt, 10, 40, 256, 260–61

protégés of, 251, 252, 271, 273, 285, 286

strategic plans of, 83, 210, 240, 270

and Turkish army at Kut, 5, 288

and World War I, 244–46,
245
, 262, 264, 265–66, 274

Knightley, Phillip, 582n

Korda, Sir Alexander, 590n, 668–69, 690n, 691–92

Korda, Vincent, 668n, 669

Korda, Zoltan, 668, 692

Kress von Kressenstein, Friedrich Freiherr, 285, 333

Kurdistan, 517

Kut al-Amara:

siege of, 5, 277, 287–90, 455

Townshend’s surrender at, 288, 289–90, 295

La Coupe d’Aviation Maritime Jacques Schneider
(Schneider Trophy), 642–43, 647, 648–50

Lake, Sir Percy, 289

Langner, Lawrence, 596

Laughton, Charles, 668, 694, 695

Laurie, Janet, 131, 159–61, 227, 490–91, 503–4, 529, 658

Law, Bonar, 447

Lawrence, Arnold W. (brother), 542, 553n, 693

archaeology career of, 666

birth and childhood of, 128, 133, 134

at Clouds Hill, 613

and parents ‘relationship, 117, 666

and religion, 133

and
Seven Pillars
, 618

and T.E.’s accident and death, 678, 680, 683

T.E.’s letters to, 217

as T.E.’s literary executor, 583, 683, 684

and T.E.’s sexual preferences, 159, 583, 584