Anthony Sattin: Young Lawrence: A Portrait of the Legend as a Young Man [2014] hardback IHIST Hallelujah provides a panoramic view

Hallelujah provides a panoramic view of a city in flux - at once struggling to contain the chaos unleashed by the catastrophic famine of the preceding year while striving to become a vibrant centre of European culture and commerce

human beings have been finding ways to circle the Earth-by sail

What emerged for me was a brave

he is forced to unravel a gut-wrenching mystery that he would rather leave well alone

Anthony Sattin: Young Lawrence: A Portrait of the Legend as a Young Man [2014] hardback IHIST Hallelujah provides a panoramic viewT. E. Lawrence was one of the most charismatic characters of the First World War; a young archaeologist who fought with the Arabs and wrote an epic and very personal account of their revolt against the Turks in Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Yet this was not the first book to carry that iconic title. In 1914 the man who would become Lawrence of Arabia burnt the first Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a manuscript in which he described his adventures in the Middle