Revolt In The Desert
T. E. Lawrence
Read by Atul Sharma
Revolt in the Desert (1924) is a personal account by T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) of the 2 year Arab Revolt during the Great War. Beginning with the rout of King Feisal’s army by the Turks at Medina in 1916, it follows the campaign through to the fall of Damascus in 1918. As the Turks fled northwards, Feisal’s irregular cavalry entered Damascus unopposed, and “the Eastern war, perhaps the whole war, drew to a close”.
The book is an abridgement of his 1919 opus, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, which Winston Churchill described as a “treasure of the English language”, noting that “If Lawrence had never done anything except write this book as a mere work of the imagination his fame would last - to quote Macaulay’s hackneyed phrase - ‘as long as the English language is spoken in any quarter of the globe’…But it is fact, not fiction”. A gripping history of the Arab Insurgency - it tells the story of the Imperial Camel Corps, intrigues within the British Intelligence Services, the courage of the RAF, the sacrifices of the Ghurka and Indian infantry, and the long and bitter campaign that did so much to make the face of the modern Middle East
- Summary by ASharma (14 hr 36 min)
Chapters
Introduction and Foreword | 16:12 | Read by Atul Sharma |
Storrs Goes to Jiddah | 17:26 | Read by Atul Sharma |
Riding Up to Feisal | 29:21 | Read by Atul Sharma |
Feisal and his Levies | 23:49 | Read by Atul Sharma |
Checks Around Yenbo | 28:59 | Read by Atul Sharma |
Feisal Strikes North | 35:34 | Read by Atul Sharma |
Tactics and Politics | 36:03 | Read by Atul Sharma |
Setting Out for Syria | 24:59 | Read by Atul Sharma |
The Veritable Desert | 22:42 | Read by Atul Sharma |
Feasts of the Tribes | 26:03 | Read by Atul Sharma |
Nomads and Nomad Life | 28:34 | Read by Atul Sharma |
Fighting to the Sea | 24:36 | Read by Atul Sharma |
Akaba, Suez, Allenby | 15:46 | Read by Atul Sharma |
Reforming Ourselves | 10:53 | Read by Atul Sharma |
Pricking the Enemy | 25:10 | Read by Atul Sharma |
Mines in the Railway | 15:28 | Read by Atul Sharma |
Victory and Loot | 22:24 | Read by Atul Sharma |
Making Up Our Minds | 12:10 | Read by Atul Sharma |
Across the Line Again | 16:47 | Read by Atul Sharma |
Services and Sermons | 20:52 | Read by Atul Sharma |
Racing to the Bridge | 23:44 | Read by Atul Sharma |
To Catch a Train | 19:54 | Read by Atul Sharma |
Return to the World | 24:52 | Read by Atul Sharma |
Fighting for Tafileh | 32:29 | Read by Atul Sharma |
Winter Shuts Us Down | 34:53 | Read by Atul Sharma |
The Siege of Maan | 24:32 | Read by Atul Sharma |
Dawnay Attacks Shahm | 12:15 | Read by Atul Sharma |
Transport and Supply | 23:37 | Read by Atul Sharma |
Buxton and the I.C.C. | 35:27 | Read by Atul Sharma |
Washing Our Linen | 11:15 | Read by Atul Sharma |
In the Advance Guard | 29:55 | Read by Atul Sharma |
We Cut the Main Lines | 31:11 | Read by Atul Sharma |
Fighting Up and Down | 16:40 | Read by Atul Sharma |
Royal Air Force Help | 24:46 | Read by Atul Sharma |
The Turks Crumple Up | 34:00 | Read by Atul Sharma |
Joining the British | 17:36 | Read by Atul Sharma |
Entry Into Damascus | 12:33 | Read by Atul Sharma |
Jerry-Cabinet-Making | 12:43 | Read by Atul Sharma |
Reviews
Paul Billingham
well read and an amazing account of the first world war in the middle east. All the crap we are still experiencing from this part of the world is due to the collapse of the Ottoman empire and greedy countries carving up the world like a pie to be exploited. TE Lawrence is a man many of us British still admire