出版社: Doubleday
出版年: 2013-8-6
ISBN: 9780385532921
页数: 592
装帧: Hardcover
定价: USD 28.95
内容简介 · · · · · ·
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
New York Times • Christian Science Monitor • NPR • Seattle Times • St. Louis Dispatch
National Book Critics Circle Finalist -- American Library Association Notable Book
A thrilling and revelatory narrative of one of the most epic and consequential periods in 20th century history – the Arab Revolt and the secret “great game” to control ...
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
New York Times • Christian Science Monitor • NPR • Seattle Times • St. Louis Dispatch
National Book Critics Circle Finalist -- American Library Association Notable Book
A thrilling and revelatory narrative of one of the most epic and consequential periods in 20th century history – the Arab Revolt and the secret “great game” to control the Middle East
The Arab Revolt against the Turks in World War One was, in the words of T.E. Lawrence, “a sideshow of a sideshow.” Amidst the slaughter in European trenches, the Western combatants paid scant attention to the Middle Eastern theater. As a result, the conflict was shaped to a remarkable degree by a small handful of adventurers and low-level officers far removed from the corridors of power.
Curt Prüfer was an effete academic attached to the German embassy in Cairo, whose clandestine role was to foment Islamic jihad against British rule. Aaron Aaronsohn was a renowned agronomist and committed Zionist who gained the trust of the Ottoman governor of Syria. William Yale was the fallen scion of the American aristocracy, who traveled the Ottoman Empire on behalf of Standard Oil, dissembling to the Turks in order gain valuable oil concessions. At the center of it all was Lawrence. In early 1914 he was an archaeologist excavating ruins in the sands of Syria; by 1917 he was the most romantic figure of World War One, battling both the enemy and his own government to bring about the vision he had for the Arab people.
The intertwined paths of these four men – the schemes they put in place, the battles they fought, the betrayals they endured and committed – mirror the grandeur, intrigue and tragedy of the war in the desert. Prüfer became Germany’s grand spymaster in the Middle East. Aaronsohn constructed an elaborate Jewish spy-ring in Palestine, only to have the anti-Semitic and bureaucratically-inept British first ignore and then misuse his organization, at tragic personal cost. Yale would become the only American intelligence agent in the entire Middle East – while still secretly on the payroll of Standard Oil. And the enigmatic Lawrence rode into legend at the head of an Arab army, even as he waged secret war against his own nation’s imperial ambitions.
Based on years of intensive primary document research, LAWRENCE IN ARABIA definitively overturns received wisdom on how the modern Middle East was formed. Sweeping in its action, keen in its portraiture, acid in its condemnation of the destruction wrought by European colonial plots, this is a book that brilliantly captures the way in which the folly of the past creates the anguish of the present.
作者简介 · · · · · ·
Scott Anderson is a veteran war correspondent who has reported from Lebanon, Israel, Egypt, Northern Ireland, Chechnya, Sudan, Bosnia, El Salvador and many other strife-torn countries. A frequent contributor to the New York Times Magazine, his work has also appeared in Vanity Fair, Esquire, Harper’s and Outside. He is the author of novels Moonlight Hotel and Triage and of non-f...
Scott Anderson is a veteran war correspondent who has reported from Lebanon, Israel, Egypt, Northern Ireland, Chechnya, Sudan, Bosnia, El Salvador and many other strife-torn countries. A frequent contributor to the New York Times Magazine, his work has also appeared in Vanity Fair, Esquire, Harper’s and Outside. He is the author of novels Moonlight Hotel and Triage and of non-fiction books The Man Who Tried to Save the World and The 4 O’Clock Murders, and co-author of War Zones and Inside The League with his brother Jon Lee Anderson.
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0 有用 花皮瓜 2025-04-09 15:13:07 新西兰
人是不是年纪越大越喜欢读史?在这个世界秩序正式崩坏的时候,读中东史成了我的精神慰藉。它提醒我世界一直是这样无序和不可预测的。同时它又如此生动活泼,细节鲜明。历史书上一笔带过的历史转折并不是真的一夜发生,它在当时也是迷雾重重不知何去何从的。这样写历史真的比小说好看。
0 有用 #ArtfulDodger# 2014-08-21 11:55:25
算是补个中东现代历史的课。其实还是另一个版本的劳伦斯的故事,其他人都是配戏的小角色。黑美国和英帝国倒是黑得不错。
0 有用 春来江水 2018-12-02 11:07:01
劳伦斯的经历真是洛克“绅士教育”的典型。
0 有用 CNBorn 2019-08-30 08:35:48
非常精彩,以四个年轻人在历史变革的关键时刻的行动为主线,勾勒出了那个揭开现代历史篇章的遥远年代,很好地补课了一战以及当时的历史政治环境:日不落帝国的势力与影响,奥托曼帝国的衰败,一直延续至今的中东问题背后的种种渊源,有点开始不太牢固的帝国主义,新兴的有些理想主义的国际新玩家美国,纷乱却又被愚蠢或毫无协调的政策搅乱的势力划分,劳伦斯的理想主义以及由战争和努力破灭带来的创伤,以及这场根本改变了世界格局... 非常精彩,以四个年轻人在历史变革的关键时刻的行动为主线,勾勒出了那个揭开现代历史篇章的遥远年代,很好地补课了一战以及当时的历史政治环境:日不落帝国的势力与影响,奥托曼帝国的衰败,一直延续至今的中东问题背后的种种渊源,有点开始不太牢固的帝国主义,新兴的有些理想主义的国际新玩家美国,纷乱却又被愚蠢或毫无协调的政策搅乱的势力划分,劳伦斯的理想主义以及由战争和努力破灭带来的创伤,以及这场根本改变了世界格局的“终结一切战争”的战争。从军事史的角度来看也是奇异的年代:战争开始时所有参战国的骑兵部队的标配还是长矛,而战争结束时的技术(和伤亡)已经远远超越了上溯几百年的战争史,坦克、重机枪、毒气以及画着迷彩的战列舰,再配上中东战场依然以接近中世纪的面貌和组织方式作战的阿拉伯部队,是让人难以忘却的感受 (展开)
1 有用 Jean 2015-01-17 06:36:06
看完了。非常喜欢! 力荐!这么好看的历史书太少见了。