Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia (121 page)

Arab victory at, 380

battle of, 365–73,
369
, 383

as military goal, 359, 360, 365

Tala Bey, 285n

Talal el Hareidhin, sheik of Tafas, 341, 417, 419–21, 422, 424

Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles-Maurice de, 270

Tell Ahmar, archaeological site at, 197–98

Tell el Shehab, bridge at, 334–40, 341, 343, 352, 410

Thatcher, Lady Margaret, 449

’at Hamilton Woman
(film), 690n

Theater Guild, 596

Thomas, Fran, 493

Thomas, Lowell, 353–54, 366, 478–82

in Aqaba, 383–88

in Jerusalem, 354

and “Lawrence of Arabia” films, 361, 384, 386, 387, 690, 693

and “Lawrence of Arabia” myth, 355–56, 361, 385, 388, 442, 443, 479–82, 493–94, 526, 623, 662, 695, 698

London performance of, 492–94

as promoter, 478, 480, 493, 593n

With Lawrence in Arabia
, 140n, 321, 385, 386, 525–26, 603, 624, 662, 689, 696

Thomas à Becket, 405

Thompson, R. Campbell, 189, 190, 191, 193, 194, 196, 197, 202

Thompson, W. H., 518–19, 522

Thomson, Christopher B., Lord, 646, 647–49, 650, 651, 652, 656

Thorndyke, Dame Sybil, 596

Thurtle, Ernest, 639–40, 641

Times
, the (London):

and Lawrence obituary, 671

Lawrence’s letters to, 199, 464, 486, 505, 593

Literary Supplement
, 623

Sunday Times
, 582n, 583

Tolstoy, Leo,
War and Peace
, 319

Townshend, Charles, 287, 288, 289–90, 295

Toynbee, Arnold, 472, 473, 506

Trad, and Anazeh tribe, 423, 424

Trans-Jordan,
see
Jordan

Trenchard, Hugh Montague, 1st Viscount Trenchard:

and Lawrence’s fame, 635, 638, 639, 643

Lawrence’s letters to, 210, 580, 597, 615–16, 619, 624, 625–26, 628, 631, 633, 640, 642, 656

and Lawrence’s RAF enlistment, 537, 540–41, 542–43, 550, 559, 564–65, 569, 572

and Lawrence’s re-enlistment, 591, 605, 606

Lawrence’s relationship with, 236, 514, 537, 597, 639, 648, 650

and Lawrence’s release from RAF, 569, 572, 574, 575–76, 639

and Lawrence’s transfers in RAF, 617, 635, 640, 660

as metropolitan commissioner of police, 653

and
’e Mint
, 553–54

and RAF, 514, 536

RAF Benefolent Fund created by, 622

retirement of, 648, 653

and
Seven Pillars
, 615–16, 617, 624

Trotsky, Leon, 280

Tucker, Sophie, 630

Tunisia, as French colonial possession, 442

Turkey:

aircraft of, 14, 52, 409–10

Armenian genocide by, 37, 221, 223, 263, 304, 373, 398, 475–76

army of,
see
Turkish army

and British foreign policy, 12–13

diverse population of, 225, 253, 304

legal code of, 56

Muslims in, 14

and negotiated peace, 301–2, 303–6, 398–99

peace with Russia, 381, 398

railroads of, 24,
75
, 297, 309, 530–31

strategic importance of, 12–13

war with Balkan states, 215, 218, 222

and World War I, 246

“Young Turks” in, 163, 168, 185, 199

see also
Ottoman Empire

Turki, tribal leader, 391

Turkish army:

Arab actions against, 99–100;
see also specific sites

with Central Powers in World War I, 10, 13, 233, 249–50

corruption of, 4–5, 215

cruelty to prisoners, 5, 36–37, 85n, 96, 288, 325, 349

firefight with, 98

German support of, 20, 36, 104, 285, 287, 311, 391, 411, 416, 421, 423, 424

guarding archaeological sites, 192

Lawrence’s knowledge about, 7, 258

official handbook of, 258

in retreat, 412, 413, 414, 415–17, 422–23, 428–29

strategies of, 27, 70

superiority to Arabian army, 20, 35, 36, 53, 57

surrender of, 101–2, 292, 412, 697

underestimated by British, 4

Turkish Museum, 193

Turkish navy, 246–47

and German warships, 248–50

Tutankhamun, King, tomb of, 203n

Twain, Mark, 386

“Twenty-Seven Articles” (Lawrence), 56

Um Lejj, Arab army at, 63

Umtaiye:

airstrip constructed at, 414

railway demolition at, 407–11

United Arab Republic, 697

U.S. Army, 686

Verdun, battle of, 45

Vickers-Supermarine Aviation Works, 643

Vickery, Charles, 63, 64, 65, 66

Victoria Cross, 112, 113n, 143, 373, 518

Vietcong, 309

Voltaire, 253, 688

Wadi Ais:

Abdulla’s camp at, 60, 71, 73, 74, 76

Arab position in, 60, 63, 76

Lawrence’s journey to, 73–74

Wadi Hamdh, 65

Wadi Hesa, 365

Wadi Itm, 101–2

Wadi Rumm, 312–13, 329

Wadi Safra, Lawrence’s visits to, 30–31, 37–38, 42, 52–53

Wadi Sirhan, 90, 92, 95, 96, 281

Wadi Yenbo, 52–59

Wahhabi tribe, as followers of ibn Saud, 55, 88, 483, 484, 526, 625

Walpole, Hugh, 617

war cabinet, Eastern Committee:

Lawrence’s meetings with, 444–47, 451–52, 456, 461

reports from Middle East to, 454–55

War Office:

Lawrence’s duties with, 7, 485

Lawrence’s oÃenses against, 505

Wasta, hospitality in, 30–31

Waugh, Evelyn, 482

Officers and Gentlemen
, 236

Scoop
, 361

Wavell, A. P., 626, 687

on Lawrence’s demolition skills, 408

Lawrence’s friendship with, 236, 321

and Lawrence’s funeral, 679

on Lawrence’s writing, 369, 373, 594

Waziristan, RAF station in, 631–34

Webb, Beatrice, 470, 570

Webb, Sidney, 570

Weintraub, Stanley, 397

Weizmann, Chaim, 531

Weizmann-Feisal discussions, 399–400, 463, 465–68, 476

Wejh:

Arab army move to, 60–61, 64–66, 76, 307

Arab capture of, 66, 68

Feisal’s camp at, 69–70, 81

Turkish control of, 21, 64

Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, duke of, 112, 145, 373, 688, 690

Wells, H. G., 617, 659

Wemyss, Sir Rosslyn, 44, 45, 83, 108

West, Anthony, 659

West, Rebecca, 659

Wigram, Clive, 439, 447

Wilde, Oscar, 157, 556

William II, Kaiser, 351, 453

Williamson, Henry, 675–76

Wilson, Sir Arnold, 517, 593n

Wilson, Cyril, 62, 90

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

Lawrence recommended for DSO by, 112

and plans for Arab Revolt, 40, 82

Wilson, Jeremy, Lawrence’s correspondence edited by, 694–95

Wilson, Jeremy:
Lawrence of Arabia
, 695

on Arab-Turkish negotiations, 398

on Bruce, 582n

on Feisal portrait, 504

on Lawrence in RAF, 552, 564

on Lawrence’s embellishments of his story, 442

on Lawrence’s sailing skills, 662

on Lawrence’s schooling, 151

on Lawrence’s wartime accomplishments, 694

on
Seven Pillars
, 500, 574

on Thomas’s time with Lawrence, 385

Wilson, Michael, 692

Wilson, Woodrow:

on European colonial acquisitions, 305

Fourteen Points of, 454, 455

meeting of Lawrence and, 472–73

Middle East commitments avoided by, 475, 476, 484

and Paris Peace Conference, 210, 454, 458, 460, 472, 473, 474, 475, 476

on secret treaties, 414, 444, 455

and Thomas, 353, 384

Winckler, Hugo, 184

Wingate, Orde, 29, 687

Wingate, Sir Reginald, 44–47,
47
, 236, 277

as British high commissioner in Egypt, 45, 273

as governor-general of Sudan, 12, 27, 36, 44, 257

and Kitchener, 246

and Lawrence’s assignments, 49, 252

and Lawrence’s military strategies, 29, 112, 298, 518, 687

personal traits of, 46–47

and RFC aircraft, 14, 52

as
sirdar
of Egyptian army, 282

as supporter of Arab Revolt, 44, 45, 47, 76

Winterton, Lord Edward, 408, 417–18, 424, 425, 440, 443, 610

Wood, C. E., 326, 336, 337

Wood, Gar, 649