That changed the world

T.E. Lawrence

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"His name will live in history. It will live in the annals

of war... It will live in the legends of Arabia"

Winston Churchill

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During WWI he mobilised feuding Arab tribes into a formidable guerrilla army to topple the ruling Ottoman Empire. Disheartened by the Arab

sell-out at Versailles, he refused honours to be bestowed on him by King George V. In 1921, Churchill, then Colonial Secretary, asked Lawrence to help him draft a Middle East settlement. He resigned from office in 1922, feeling that he had betrayed the Arab cause.

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A hero, scholar and linguist, archaeologist and explorer, immortalised by Peter O'Toole in the film 'Lawrence of Arabia'.

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"All men dream, but not equally"

T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom