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I give this book 4 stars not because it's particularly well written - not being any kind of military expert I was lost more than a few times - but because it shows well the stage for what's going on now in the world. It also provides a strange, twisting, and even sad side of the biography of a controversial TE Lawrence. Trust me, make it to the epilogue. It will probably stun you more than any other part of this story. I read it as a story rather than a history book so perhaps I have a different take on it than someone with a background in studying history and military. It, more than most stories, shows that diplomacy and war-making are inherently dependent on personalities whether we realize it while that diplomacy or war-making are taking place at the moment. Just think of Obama and Trump and what they have both wrought in the Middle East - 'good'(Obama's speech in Cairo) and 'bad' (Trump's brash demeanor and redlines on chemical weapons use in Syria). I highly recommend this book if you're at all interested in how conflict used to be in the age before computers and drones. The argument is that these make conflict easier but really they just make them more impersonal imho. Sixteen million still died in WWI and Lawrence ended up dying alone in a fate that was less than glamorous, not on some battlefield.