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Lawrence of Arabia Became Popular as the Dashing Antithesis of the War in Europe

Old-Fashioned Hero

T.E. Lawrence led the Arab Revolt Against the Turks and Found Fame as the Antithesis of the faceless World War I combatants dying by the thousands in Europes’s trenches.

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