![]() ![]() ![]() Unfortunately my concern was limited to this end, and the book is just a designed procession of Arab freedom from Mecca to Damascus. They were inarticulate, but wonderful, especially when it is taken into account that they had not the motive, the imaginative vision of the end, which sustained the officers. Especially I am most sorry that I have not told what the non-commissioned of us did. This isolated picture throwing the main light upon myself is unfair to my British colleagues. The record of events was not dulled in me and perhaps a few actual mistakes crept in-except in details of dates or numbers-but the outlines and significance of things had lost edge in the haze of new interests. So it was built again with heavy repugnance in London in the winter of 1919-20 from memory and my surviving notes. It seemed to me historically needful to reproduce the tale, as perhaps no one but myself in Feisal’s army had thought of writing down at the time what we felt, what we hoped, what we tried. Afterwards, in the autumn of 1919, this first draft and some of the notes were lost. Seven Pillars of Wisdom was first written out in Paris during the Peace Conference from notes jotted daily on the march, strengthened by some reports sent to my chiefs in Cairo. Edinburgh Scotland, 5-7 October 2023 More ![]() Join us for the 40th International Churchill Conference. ![]()
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