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[lollardfish]

I am assuming everyone else knew that the T. E. Lawrence who wrote Crusader Castles is also known as "Lawrence of Arabia?" Or did someone forget to tell me!

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[carbonel]

I knew it only because my main knowledge of T.E. Lawrence comes from reading a biography (Jeremy Wilson's, I think) after watching the movie Lawrence of Arabia.

It was his Oxford thesis.

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

Heh. I just got a copy because I'm trying to figure out where a myth about a crusader castle (that B. learned in Syria) came from ...