Simpson, Colin; Knightley, Phillip (June 1968). "John Bruce". The Sunday Times. (The pieces appeared on 9, 16, 23, and 30June 1968, and were based mostly on the narrative of John Bruce.)

The intertwined paths of these four men – the schemes they put in place, the battles they fought, the betrayals they endured and committed – mirror the grandeur, intrigue and tragedy of the war in the desert. Prüfer became Germany’s grand spymaster in the Middle East. Aaronsohn constructed an elaborate Jewish spy-ring in Palestine, only to have the anti-Semitic and bureaucratically-inept British first ignore and then misuse his organization, at tragic personal cost. Yale would become the only American intelligence agent in the entire Middle East – while still secretly on the payroll of Standard Oil. And the enigmatic Lawrence rode into legend at the head of an Arab army, even as he waged secret war against his own nation’s imperial ambitions. Peter O'Toole was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Lawrence in the 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia. In 2003, the American Film Institute ranked his portrayal as the 10th greatest film hero of all time. [268] Anderson's supporting characters are colourful, even if none approaches Lawrence in stature and pathos. Prufer was a brilliant linguist and an energetic lothario – his many girlfriends included Minna "Fanny" Weizmann, whose brother Chaim was Europe's most prominent Zionist and went on to become Israel's first president. His vision of the Middle East was, however, narrowed by the usual ethnic blinkers (cowardly Arabs, docile Jews), and he ended the war scheming irrelevantly. The book had to be rewritten three times, once following the loss of the manuscript on a train at Reading railway station. From Seven Pillars, "...and then lost all but the Introduction and drafts of Books9 and 10 at Reading Station, while changing trains. This was about Christmas, 1919." (p.21) After Damascus, Lawrence traveled to France for the Paris Peace Conference. He hoped to convince Britain and France that the Arabian people could be independent. Lawrence's friend from the revolt, Prince Faisal I was crowned king of the independent Syrian state in 1920, but this reign was short-lived, as post-war negotiations gave Syria to the French.Brown, Malcolm; Cave, Julia (1988). A Touch of Genius: The life of T. E. Lawrence. London: J.M. Brent.

Graves, Richard Perceval (1976). Lawrence of Arabia and His World. Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-13054-4– via Internet Archive (archive.org). Alleyne, Richard (30 July 2010). "Garland of Arabia: the forgotten story of TE Lawrence's brother-in-arms". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 11 January 2022 . Retrieved 29 March 2014.Throughout, Fiennes weaves his own experiences with those of Lawrence half a century earlier: “I well remember a similar troubled feeling after killing a man for the first time.” Studies of Lawrence fill a crowded field, but this comparative experience gives Fiennes an edge. Aaronsohn and his fellow agents felt a similar revulsion for their Arab neighbours in Palestine. The agents' dishonest depiction of the Turks' evacuation of the port city of Jaffa in 1917 as a vicious anti-Jewish pogrom was "one of the most consequential disinformation campaigns" of the war, for it was accepted unquestioningly in the west and hardened the opinion of world Jewry in favour of Zionism. Their knowledge of the nature and power and country of the Arabic-speaking peoples made them think that the issue of such a rebellion would be happy: and indicated its character and method.

McGurk, Stuart (12 May 2017). "Alien: Covenant is great – but the aliens are the worst thing about it". GQ . Retrieved 17 October 2017. Carchidi, Victoria K. (1987). Creation Out of the Void: The making of a hero, an epic, a world: T. E. Lawrence. University of Pennsylvania – via University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, MI. Eliezer Tauber. The Formation of Modern Syria and Iraq. Frank Cass and Co. Ltd. Portland, Oregon. 1995.There is considerable evidence that Lawrence was a masochist. He wrote in his description of the Dera'a beating that "a delicious warmth, probably sexual, was swelling through me," and he also included a detailed description of the guards' whip in a style typical of masochists' writing. [228] In later life, Lawrence arranged to pay a military colleague to administer beatings to him, [229] and to be subjected to severe formal tests of fitness and stamina. [212] John Bruce first wrote on this topic, including some other statements that were not credible, but Lawrence's biographers regard the beatings as established fact. [230] French novelist André Malraux admired Lawrence but wrote that he had a "taste for self-humiliation, now by discipline and now by veneration; a horror of respectability; a disgust for possessions". [231] Biographer Lawrence James wrote that the evidence suggested a "strong homosexual masochism", noting that he never sought punishment from women. [232] Brief history of the City of Oxford High School for Boys, George Street". University of Oxford Faculty of History. Archived from the original on 18 April 2012 . Retrieved 25 June 2008. Creating History: Lowell Thomas and Lawrence of Arabia" online history exhibit at Clio Visualizing History. In Tony Parsons’ novel, The Murder Bag (2014), the Seven Pillars is referenced as part of the curriculum at Potters Field school and has a formative influence on a group of former pupils. Simpson, Andrew R. B. (2011). Another Life: Lawrence After Arabia. History Press. pp.278–9. ISBN 978-0752466446.

From 1921-1922, Lawrence worked at Oxford University and then, for Winston Churchill. Churchill was colonial secretary at the time, and Lawrence became his friend as well as a political adviser to the Middle East Department. Lawrence lived in a period of strong official opposition to homosexuality, but his writing on the subject was tolerant. He wrote to Charlotte Shaw, "I've seen lots of man-and-man loves: very lovely and fortunate some of them were." [224] He refers to "the openness and honesty of perfect love" on one occasion in Seven Pillars, when discussing relationships between young male fighters in the war. [225] The passage in the front matter is referred to with the single-word tag "Sex". [226] Lawrence, T. E. (1935). Seven Pillars of Wisdom (unabridgeded.). Garden City, New York, USA: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-385-07015-7. Graves, Robert (1934). Lawrence and the Arabs. London: Jonathan Cape – via Internet Archive (archive.org).Minorities: Good Poems by Small Poets and Small Poems by Good Poets, edited by Jeremy Wilson, 1971. Lawrence's commonplace book includes an introduction by Wilson that explains how the poems comprising the book reflected Lawrence's life and thoughts. Scott Anderson, Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East Anderson structures Lawrence in Arabia in such a way that it is told through the experiences of four central characters. There is Curt Prüfer, a German academic who tried to incite an Islamic jihad against the British; Aaron Aaronsohn, a Zionist in the employ of the Ottoman Empire, who forged a spy ring in Palestine; and William Yale, a Standard Oil man sent to wring concessions from the Turks, who ended up drawn into the vortex of war. Winston Churchill and T. E. Lawrence: a brilliant friendship". TheArticle. 7 November 2021 . Retrieved 5 November 2022.