Seven Pillars of Wisdom

It ranks with the greatest books ever written in the English language.As a narrative of war and adventure...it is unsurpassable

Winston Churchill

Round this tent-pole of a military chronicle, T. E. has hung an unexampled fabric of portraits, descriptions, philosophies, emotions, adventures, dreams

E.M. Forster

I am not much of a hero-worshipper but I could have followed T.E. Lawrence over the edge of the world

John Buchan

Seven Pillars of Wisdom is one of the major statements about the fighting experience of the First World War

Angus Calder

Emotional and mythic

Guardian

More recently he has won an amazing new reputation as the most perceptive writer on the subject of guerrilla warfare, so that his memoir about the Arab Revolt - Seven Pillars Of Wisdom, the basis for the movie - is now a "must read" in Iraq. It is the best textbook for conventional forces facing the problem of having to cope with an enemy who has no known rules, who emerges out of nowhere and strikes at random

Sunday Express

His book is still a wonderful, exciting and sometimes moving account of a great adventure

Scotsman

Seven Pillars, elegantly written and deservedly regarded as a classic, also remains fascinating in its own right, as military history, for its close observation of the desert life of the nomadic Arab tribesmen, and perhaps most of all for its insights into the character of the still-enigmatic Lawrence

Washington Post

Seminal

Daily Mail

The Seven Pillars of Wisdom is about the war in the desert in the way that Moby Dick is about catching a whale

E.M. Forster

I was asked to write a preface for the latest edition and realised why Churchill called it one of the "greatest books ever written in the English language

Robert Frisk, The Week