Lawrence And Aaronsohn
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Lawrence And Aaronsohn
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Author : Ronald Florence
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2007-07-19
Lawrence And Aaronsohn written by Ronald Florence and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-07-19 with History categories.
The rivalry that presaged the world's most tenacious conflict As the Arab-Israeli conflict continues to plague the Middle East, historian Ronald Florence offers extraordinary new insights on its origins. This is the story of T. E. Lawrence, the young British officer who became famous around the world as Lawrence of Arabia, Aaron Aaronsohn, an agronomist from Palestine, and the antagonism that divided them over the fate of the dying Ottoman Empire during World War I--a clash of visions that set Arab nationalism and Zionism on a direct collision course that reverberates to this day.
Lawrence In Arabia
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Author : Scott Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Atlantic Books Ltd
Release Date : 2014-03-06
Lawrence In Arabia written by Scott Anderson and has been published by Atlantic Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-06 with History categories.
The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller 2014 New York Times top ten bestseller 2014 Amazon.com's Top Ten History Books of the Year 2014 New York Times Book of the Year 2014 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 theatre. 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. At the centre of it all was Lawrence. In early 1914 he was an archaeologist excavating ruins in the sands of Syria; by 1917 he was battling both the enemy and his own government to bring about the vision he had for the Arab people. Operating in the Middle East at the same time, but to wildly different ends, were three other important players: a German attaché, an American oilman and a committed Zionist. The intertwined paths of these four young 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.
Lawrence In Arabia
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Author : Scott Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Signal
Release Date : 2013-08-06
Lawrence In Arabia written by Scott Anderson and has been published by Signal this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-06 with History categories.
The Arab Revolt against the Turks in World War I was, in the words of T.E. Lawrence, "a sideshow to a sideshow." As a result, the conflict was shaped to a remarkable degree by four men far removed from the corridors of power. Curt Pruefer was an effete academic attached to the German embassy in Cairo, whose clandestine role was to foment jihad against British rule. Aaron Aaronsohn was a renowned agronomist and committed Zionist who gained the trust of the Ottoman governor of Palestine. 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 Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence. In early 1914 he was an archaeologist digging ruins in Syria; by 1919 he was riding into legend at the head of an Arab army, as he fought a rearguard action against his own government and its imperial ambitions. Based on four 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.
Lawrence Of Arabia
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Author : Richard Allen
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2023-06-11
Lawrence Of Arabia written by Richard Allen and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-11 with categories.
Witness the drama of World War I, which shaped the modern Middle East. Imagine what happens when you double the adage that "one man can change the course of history" by four. Imperial powers partitioned the Middle East into the nations we know today during and after World War I, and the region became the scene of several ongoing battles. In the midst of this chaotic period, the activities of four men - T. E. Lawrence, Curt Prüfer, Aaron Aaronsohn and William Yale, each on separate sides of the war, each with his own ambitions and sympathies - impacted the history of the region and the world. The story of these four men and their endeavors in the Middle East during World War I are told in the following chapters. These stories read like a true John LeCarré thriller, complete with spies, lies, and evil intents. It also tells the tale of how the Middle East came to be one of the most politically unstable regions in the world. These Book will provide information on Why Lawrence's conquest of Aqaba turned out to be a bittersweet success; how Prüfer's ties in the Ottoman Empire influenced the Turks; and why the Sykes-Picot Agreement's effects are still being felt today.
Aaronsohn S Maps
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Author : Patricia Goldstone
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2007
Aaronsohn S Maps written by Patricia Goldstone and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Scientist, diplomat, and spy, Aaron Aaronsohn was one of the most extraordinary figures in the early struggle to create a homeland for the Jews.Born to Jewish settlers in Palestine, he ran a spy network that enabled the British to capture Jerusalem during World War I and made him the rival of his contemporary, T.E.Lawrence-who may also have been his flamboyant sister Sarah's lover.A rugged adventurer, Aaronsohn became convinced during his explorations of the Middle East that water would govern the region's fate.He compiled both the area's first detailed water maps and a plan for Palestine's national borders that predicted and-in its insistence on partnership between Arabs and Jews-might have prevented the decades of conflict to come.And he paid for his devotion to the new nation with his life.A history that speaks directly to the present, Aaronsohn's Maps reveals for the first time Aaronsohn's key role in establishing Israel and the enduring importance of Aaronsohn's maps in Middle Eastern politics today.
The Woman Who Fought An Empire
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Author : Gregory J. Wallance
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2018-03
The Woman Who Fought An Empire written by Gregory J. Wallance and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03 with HISTORY categories.
Though she lived only to twenty-seven, Sarah Aaronsohn led a remarkable life. The Woman Who Fought an Empire tells the improbable but true odyssey of a bold young woman—the daughter of Romanian-born Jewish settlers in Palestine—who became the daring leader of a Middle East spy ring. Following the outbreak of World War I, Sarah learned that her brother Aaron had formed Nili, an anti-Turkish spy ring, to aid the British in their war against the Ottomans. Sarah, who had witnessed the atrocities of the Armenian genocide by the Turks, believed that only the defeat of the Ottoman Empire could save the Palestinian Jews from a similar fate. Sarah joined Nili, eventually rising to become the organization’s leader. Operating behind enemy lines, she and her spies furnished vital information to British intelligence in Cairo about the Turkish military forces until she was caught and tortured by the Turks in the fall of 1917. To protect her secrets, Sarah got hold of a gun and shot herself. The Woman Who Fought an Empire, set at the birth of the modern Middle East, rebukes the Hollywood stereotype of women spies as femme fatales and is both an espionage thriller and a Joan of Arc tale.
The Woman Who Fought An Empire
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Author : Gregory J. Wallance
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2018-03
The Woman Who Fought An Empire written by Gregory J. Wallance and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Though she lived only to twenty-seven, Sarah Aaronsohn led a remarkable life. The Woman Who Fought an Empire tells the improbable but true odyssey of a bold young woman--the daughter of Romanian-born Jewish settlers in Palestine--who became the daring leader of a Middle East spy ring. Following the outbreak of World War I, Sarah learned that her brother Aaron had formed Nili, an anti-Turkish spy ring, to aid the British in their war against the Ottomans. Sarah, who had witnessed the atrocities of the Armenian genocide by the Turks, believed that only the defeat of the Ottoman Empire could save the Palestinian Jews from a similar fate. Sarah joined Nili, eventually rising to become the organization's leader. Operating behind enemy lines, she and her spies furnished vital information to British intelligence in Cairo about the Turkish military forces until she was caught and tortured by the Turks in the fall of 1917. To protect her secrets, Sarah got hold of a gun and shot herself. The Woman Who Fought an Empire, set at the birth of the modern Middle East, rebukes the Hollywood stereotype of women spies as femme fatales and is both an espionage thriller and a Joan of Arc tale.
Aaronsohn S Maps
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Author : Patricia Goldstone
language : en
Publisher: Catapult
Release Date : 2015-08-01
Aaronsohn S Maps written by Patricia Goldstone and has been published by Catapult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Aaron Aaronsohn was one of the most extraordinary figures in the early struggle to create a homeland for the Jewish people. Brought to Palestine at age five, as a young man Aaronsohn was a rugged adventurer who became convinced during years of solo explorations that water should govern the region's fate. He compiled both the area's first detailed water maps and a plan for Palestine's national borders that predicted and—in its insistence on partnership between Arabs and Jews—might have prevented the decades of conflict to come. In World War I, he ran a spy network with his sister, Sarah, that enabled the British to capture Jerusalem but also made him the rival of his colleague T.E. Lawrence. There is evidence that beautiful, rebellious Sarah, who died tragically in 1917, was the only woman the enigmatic Lawrence ever loved. Ultimately, Aaron Aaronsohn also paid for his devotion to the new nation with his life. A history that speaks directly to the present, Aaronsohn's Maps reveals for the first time Aaronsohn's key role in establishing Israel and the enduring importance of Aaronsohn's maps in Middle Eastern politics today.
Spies In Palestine
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Author : James Srodes
language : en
Publisher: Catapult
Release Date : 2016-12-01
Spies In Palestine written by James Srodes and has been published by Catapult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-01 with History categories.
Sarah Aaronsohn was a twenty–first century woman in a nineteenth–century world. She and her siblings were born as part of the first wave of Jewish immigrants who fled the pogroms of Russia and Eastern Europe in the 1880s, settling in the province of Syria–Palestine. By the outbreak of World War I in 1914 the settlers had come a dramatic distance in creating the Eretz Israel of their Biblical prophecies. Sarah's home village of Zichron Ya'akov brought prosperity to their lands between the Mediterranean coast and the Mount Carmel range. But when the Ottoman Turkish Empire sided with Kaiser Wilhelm II and the other Central Powers in World War I, the Jewish settlements faced cruel oppressions. This book describes how the Aaronsohns, one of the most prominent families in the province, came to commit themselves and their comrades to the Allied side and how they formed the NILI espionage organization to spy against the Turkish Army. Late in the war, in 1917, Sarah assumed command of the spy network as the group's penetration of the Turkish army reached a critical juncture. Sarah was idolized by T.E. Lawrence, the fabled Lawrence of Arabia who dedicated his flowery biography, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, to her.
With The Turks In Palestine
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Author : Alexander Aaronsohn
language : en
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Release Date : 2007-04-01
With The Turks In Palestine written by Alexander Aaronsohn and has been published by Cosimo, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04-01 with History categories.
In this unique book first published in 1916, Romanian Jew ALEXANDER AARONSOHN documents for the world the struggle that went on in Palestine during the early years of the Zionist movement, when his parents helped found the village of Zicron-Jacob and worked to transform the desert into a fertile garden. Aaronsohn tells the story of his life, from his early trip to America to being pressed into military service for Turkey. His personal account covers the imposition of Germany into Turkish politics and the effect of German propaganda on Turkish attitudes towards outsiders, including himself. In the events that follow, Aaronsohn struggles to save his home and his family from growing oppression of the Turks.