The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones Documentaries
Colonel Lawrence's War - T.E. Lawrence and Arabia
S1 • E3 Oct 22, 2007 36m
He was an action hero as well as an intellectual hero. T.E. Lawrence escaped a safe office job during World War I to become a guerilla war mastermind in desert combat, fighting alongside Arabs to throw off the rule of the Ottoman Empire. But despite British promises of Arab independence, the Middle East would end up being carved by European colonial treaties, and Lawrence faced the challenges of keeping his word to his trusted compatriots of the desert.
