New in 2016:
Lawrence of Arabia’s War: the Arabs, the British, and the remaking of the Middle East in World War I (Yale University Press)
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Publisher's notes:
'A wealth of new research and thinking on Lawrence, the Arab Revolt, and World War I in the Middle East, providing essential background to today’s violent conflicts.
Rarely is a book published that revises our understanding of an entire world region and the history that has defined it. This groundbreaking volume makes just such a contribution. Neil Faulkner draws on ten years of field research to offer the first truly multidisciplinary history of the conflicts that raged in Sinai, Arabia, Palestine, and Syria during the First World War.
In Lawrence of Arabia’s War, the author rewrites the history of T E Lawrence’s legendary military campaigns in the context of the Arab Revolt. He explores the intersections among the declining Ottoman Empire, the Bedouin tribes, nascent Arab nationalism, and Western imperial ambition. The book provides a new analysis of Ottoman resilience in the face of modern industrialised warfare, and it assesses the relative weight of conventional operations in Palestine and irregular warfare in Syria. Faulkner thus reassesses the historic roots of today’s divided, fractious, war-torn Middle East.'
Reviews
‘A lively history of the Arab Revolt that sheds important new light on Lawrence’s Seven Pillars as a reliable source. Essential reading.’
Eugene Rogan, author of The Arabs: a history
‘Though closely interlinked, the Great Arab Revolt and the Palestine campaigns are generally studied separately. Neil Faulkner’s eminently readable account treats them in parallel, opening up a much wider context for Lawrence’s Seven Pillars.’
Jeremy Wilson, author of Lawrence of Arabia: the authorised biography
‘Neil Faulkner’s book is caustic, richly detailed, and provocative.’
BBC History Magazine
‘Faulkner’s admirable empathy with the common soldier, be he British, Arab, or Turk, runs through these pages in what is a rich and highly readable interdisciplinary study that draws together the Great Arab Revolt and the Palestine campaigns into a larger whole.’
The Spectator
‘The book brilliantly describes the advances, the setbacks, and the complementarity of both Arab guerrilla forces and the British army under the larger-than-life General Allenby.’
Methodist Recorder
‘Faulkner is plainly passionate about his subject. This could have been a shorter book, but it would have been a poorer work for it. No aspect of the desert war is too incidental for the author.’
The British Army Review
‘Lawrence of Arabia’s War offers readers as comprehensive a picture of ‘Lawrence’s War’ as is possible in one volume. Not only is Faulkner’s history of the Arab Revolt and the wider war in the Middle East very readable, it is unique.’
Middle East Policy
Lawrence of Arabia’s War: the Arabs, the British, and the remaking of the Middle East in World War I (Yale University Press)
Publisher's site 1 Publisher's site 2
Publisher's notes:
'A wealth of new research and thinking on Lawrence, the Arab Revolt, and World War I in the Middle East, providing essential background to today’s violent conflicts.
Rarely is a book published that revises our understanding of an entire world region and the history that has defined it. This groundbreaking volume makes just such a contribution. Neil Faulkner draws on ten years of field research to offer the first truly multidisciplinary history of the conflicts that raged in Sinai, Arabia, Palestine, and Syria during the First World War.
In Lawrence of Arabia’s War, the author rewrites the history of T E Lawrence’s legendary military campaigns in the context of the Arab Revolt. He explores the intersections among the declining Ottoman Empire, the Bedouin tribes, nascent Arab nationalism, and Western imperial ambition. The book provides a new analysis of Ottoman resilience in the face of modern industrialised warfare, and it assesses the relative weight of conventional operations in Palestine and irregular warfare in Syria. Faulkner thus reassesses the historic roots of today’s divided, fractious, war-torn Middle East.'
Reviews
‘A lively history of the Arab Revolt that sheds important new light on Lawrence’s Seven Pillars as a reliable source. Essential reading.’
Eugene Rogan, author of The Arabs: a history
‘Though closely interlinked, the Great Arab Revolt and the Palestine campaigns are generally studied separately. Neil Faulkner’s eminently readable account treats them in parallel, opening up a much wider context for Lawrence’s Seven Pillars.’
Jeremy Wilson, author of Lawrence of Arabia: the authorised biography
‘Neil Faulkner’s book is caustic, richly detailed, and provocative.’
BBC History Magazine
‘Faulkner’s admirable empathy with the common soldier, be he British, Arab, or Turk, runs through these pages in what is a rich and highly readable interdisciplinary study that draws together the Great Arab Revolt and the Palestine campaigns into a larger whole.’
The Spectator
‘The book brilliantly describes the advances, the setbacks, and the complementarity of both Arab guerrilla forces and the British army under the larger-than-life General Allenby.’
Methodist Recorder
‘Faulkner is plainly passionate about his subject. This could have been a shorter book, but it would have been a poorer work for it. No aspect of the desert war is too incidental for the author.’
The British Army Review
‘Lawrence of Arabia’s War offers readers as comprehensive a picture of ‘Lawrence’s War’ as is possible in one volume. Not only is Faulkner’s history of the Arab Revolt and the wider war in the Middle East very readable, it is unique.’
Middle East Policy
Previously:
2014 (with Keith Robinson, Gary Rossin, and the SHARP Team): Digging Sedgeford: a people’s archaeology (Poppyland Publishing)
2012: A Visitor’s Guide to the Ancient Olympics (Yale University Press)
2008: Rome: empire of the eagles (Pearson Longman)
2008 (with Nadia Durrani): In Search of the Zeppelin War: the archaeology of the First Blitz (Tempus)
2005 (with Megan Dennis): The Sedgeford Hoard (Tempus)
2003: Hidden Treasure: digging up Britain’s past (BBC)
2002: Apocalypse: the great Jewish revolt against Rome, AD 66-73 (Tempus)
2000: The Decline and Fall of Roman Britain (Tempus)
2014 (with Keith Robinson, Gary Rossin, and the SHARP Team): Digging Sedgeford: a people’s archaeology (Poppyland Publishing)
2012: A Visitor’s Guide to the Ancient Olympics (Yale University Press)
2008: Rome: empire of the eagles (Pearson Longman)
2008 (with Nadia Durrani): In Search of the Zeppelin War: the archaeology of the First Blitz (Tempus)
2005 (with Megan Dennis): The Sedgeford Hoard (Tempus)
2003: Hidden Treasure: digging up Britain’s past (BBC)
2002: Apocalypse: the great Jewish revolt against Rome, AD 66-73 (Tempus)
2000: The Decline and Fall of Roman Britain (Tempus)
