The Unmasking
of
Lawrence of Arabia

Hannen Swaffer (1879 – 1962), long-time dead British journalist who once presided as the Grand Pooh-Bah of Fleet Street’s chattering classes declared in this editorial that one by one the war heroes of yore are being debunked and now it is Lawrence’s turn…

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