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ONLINE: Lawrence and the Arab Revolt with Jim Tanner

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The presentation will be live and online. While the reasons are many and complex the decision made by the Ottoman Turks in October 1914 to enter the war against the Entente led directly to the turmoil that continues to affect the Middle East today. Back then, seeking to take advantage of the Turks being distracted elsewhere, the Arabs of the …

Seminar Series 2022-2023

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In Flanders Fields Museum, Ieper – School of History, University of Kent in partnership with the Western Front Association and the Gateways Partnership present details of the seminar series, 2022-23. This is the seventh series of eight seminars on the history of the First World War, free and open to all. Ieper venue and start times: Educational…

Masters of Mayhem. Lawrence of Arabia and the British Military Mission to the Hejaz by James Stejskal

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Casemate Publishers, 2018 £16-£20 HB 184pp b/w photos throughout ISBN 9781 61200 5744 Despite the title, the author James Stejskal says that Lawrence is not the ‘primary subject’ of the book, there being many such works on Lawrence and the Arab Revolt, but more an account of nascent combined special operations this example being one of, if…