Sublime

The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin,

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In 1920, Fallujah had provided the spark in Iraq’s nationwide uprising against the British, with the initial fighting costing five hundred British lives and six thousand Iraqi ones, prompting Arabist T.E. Lawrence to later write: The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap…it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor. Things

8Were not the Ethiopians[34] and the Libyans a huge army with exceedingly many chariots and cavalry? Yet because you relied on the LORD, he gave them into your hand.

Lieutenant Colonel Dudley Clarke, RA, the man who was to become the éminence grise of WW2 strategic deception, seemed a conventional enough colonel, with his left-parted hair brushed back from the widow’s peak, and his courteous manner. He liked to appear in rooms, or disappear from them, silently, and his pale oval face, with quick glances from

T. E. Lawrence organized his thoughts on guerrilla warfare into three “elements, one algebraical, one biological, a third psychological.”169 In the case of the first, he notes that “perhaps a hundred and forty thousand” square miles of territory lay open to the Arabs in the southern Turkish empire. “How would the Turks defend all that?”170 The

After Uhud, the skirmishes between Mecca and Medina continued for two more years. These were bloody times rife with secret negotiations, clandestine assassinations, and horrific acts of violence on both sides. Finally, in 627 C.E., the Quraysh, having tired of the ongoing conflict, formed a massive coalition of Bedouin fighters and headed one last