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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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.
《阿拉伯的劳伦斯》 [美]斯科特·安德森著 陆大鹏译 社会科学文献出版社 2014年9月第一版 672页,72.00元 斯科特·安德森这本书的立意就是要告诉读者,当前中东的局势,是经由欧洲列强发动的第一次世界大战塑造的,这其中英法这两个老牌帝国主义国家应负主...
評分历史往往是由微不足道的时刻集结而成的故事。历史,很官方的两个字眼,我们的中学教科书向我们泛泛地展示了冰冷的历史。但我们都知道,这些文字远远不够把我们带到那些个惊心动魄的时代。所有事件背后都参杂着厚厚的人情,每个人都有目的盘算,蝴蝶的振翅可能改变整个世界…… ...
評分 評分因为最近中东局势的缘故,对这片地区政治格局的形成产生了兴趣,于是买了这本最新的书。本来是抱定看一本繁杂专著的心情翻开的,但没想到其中呈现的是这样一个妙趣横生的故事和光怪陆离的世界。(好吧有些地方令人悚然) 一个关于默默无名的小人物如何在阴差阳错之下被推上历史...
評分这是一部关于第一次世界大战期间驰骋中东战场的英国军官——T.E.劳伦斯的最新传记作品。以劳伦斯和其他几位具有同样或相似身份的人物的经历为主线,为我们描绘了一幅宏大的一战期间的中东形势图,其间充斥着战争,协约国的利益瓜分,犹太复国主义的活动,中东旧有统治者为保全...
《勞倫斯在阿拉伯》一戰期間,TE勞倫斯一眾健兒馳騁阿拉伯勾心鬥角,英國,奧斯曼,法國,德國,美國,阿拉伯,猶太復興者博弈角逐,欺騙戰鬥殺戮驚心動魄,帝國主義爛攤子百姓遭殃源頭。
评分簡直就是一本現代中東局勢形成史的年鑑。
评分挺不錯的。看瞭開頭一部分,可惜沒時間繼續其餘的部分。大概理解瞭勞倫斯這樣的探險傢是怎樣煉成的。
评分算是補個中東現代曆史的課。其實還是另一個版本的勞倫斯的故事,其他人都是配戲的小角色。黑美國和英帝國倒是黑得不錯。
评分《勞倫斯在阿拉伯》一戰期間,TE勞倫斯一眾健兒馳騁阿拉伯勾心鬥角,英國,奧斯曼,法國,德國,美國,阿拉伯,猶太復興者博弈角逐,欺騙戰鬥殺戮驚心動魄,帝國主義爛攤子百姓遭殃源頭。
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