Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia

by Michael Korda

T.E. Lawrence (1888-1935) first won fame for his writings and his participation in the British-sponsored Arab Revolt of WWI, but the adventurer known even in his day as "Lawrence of Arabia" is remembered today mostly as the subject of the 1962 film masterpiece based on his life. This splendid page-turner revitalizes this protean, enigmatic adventurer. That this colorful British scholar/Middle East warrior deserves a better fate is demonstrated amply in Michael Kordas' authoritative 784-page biography. Exciting, well-written, and relevant.

699 pages of text, 762 with notes

Genres: Biography, History, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, World War I, Military Fiction, Military History

699 pages, Hardcover

First published November 16, 2010

About the author

is an English-born writer and novelist who was editor-in-Chief of Simon & Schuster in New York City.