Written between 1919 and 1926, this text tells of the campaign aganist the Turks in the Middle East, encompassing gross acts of cruelty and revenge, ending in a welter of stink and corpses in a Damascus hospital.

Diffident, 40-year-old teacher, Agnes Shanklin takes the trip of a lifetime to Egypt and the Holy Land. But her arrival in Cairo coincides with an event that will change history. As Agnes observes the tumult and tensions of nation-building, she is drawn more and more deeply into geopolitical intrigue and towards a personal awakening.

First published in 1925, this work was the inspiration for the David Lean film Lawrence of Arabia starring Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif. The main creator of his mythic status was American sholar and writer, Lowell Thomas, author of this book, who first met Lawrence in Jerusalem in 1918.

This volume concerns the life and legend of Lawrence of Arabia.

Lawrence was a brilliant propagandist, rhetorician and manipulator, who deliberately turned his life into a conundrum. But who was the real man behind the masks? This work set out to solve this riddle and discovers a hero whose greatness owed as much to his weaknesses as to his strengths.

It is 1916. The Allies are struggling in the Great War. The Ottoman Sultan calls for a pan-Islamic jihad against all non-Muslims except Germans. But Sharif Husein, ruler of the holy city of Mecca, is smarting under Turkish rule, fomenting Arab nationalism and lobbying the British to support him. This book presents an account of this key moment.

An epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature. Confronted by natural and supernatural threats - shipwrecks, battles, monsters and the implacable enmity of the sea-god Poseidon - Odysseus must test his bravery and cunning to the full.

A new biography of Lawrence of Arabia

Volume II presents more than 700 letters, covering the period June 1913 to October 1916.

A biography of Lawrence of Arabia, this work describes Lawrence breaking with tradition to live with Arabs and helping them defeat the Turks and gain an independent state, providing insight into the origins of the Middle East.

The Middle East, as we know it today, emerged from decisions made by the Allies during and after the First World War. This extraordinarily ambitious, vividly written account tells how and why those decisions were made and the devastating effect they had.