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ThisWordsworthEditionincludesanexclusiveIntroductionbyAngusCalder.AsAngusCalderstatesinhisintroductiontothisedition,‘SevenPillarsofWisdomisoneofthemajorstatementsaboutthefightingexperienceoftheFirstWorldWar’.Lawrence'syoungerbrothers,FrankandWill,hadbeenkilledontheWesternFrontin1915.SevenPillarsofWisdom,writtenbetween1919and1926,tellsofthevastlydifferentcampaignagainsttheTurksintheMiddleEast-onewhichencompassesgrossactsofcrueltyandrevengeandendsinawelterofstinkandcorpsesinthedisgusting‘hospital’inDamascus.SevenPillarsofWisdomisnoBoysOwnPapertaleofImperialtriumph,butacomplexworkofhighliteraryaspirationwhichstandsinthetraditionofMelvilleandDostoevsky,andalongsidethewritingsofYeats,EliotandJoyce.