Seven Pillars of Wisdom [Illustrated with Working TOC]

by T.E. Lawrence

I decided that I must escape at once, if ever. A straight request was refused; so I took to stratagems. I became, on the telephone (G.H.Q. were at Ismailia, and I in Cairo) quite intolerable to the Staff on the Canal. I took every opportunity to rub into them their comparative ignorance and inefficiency in the department of intelligence (not difficult!) and irritated them yet further by literary airs, correcting Shavian split infinitives and tautologies in their reports.

T.E. Lawrence is quite a character and uses the best words to describe things ... "stratagems" is a new favorite!"