Lawrence's Target
Without T.E. Lawrence, few in the West would ever have heard of the Hejaz Railway. But as the author notes, without the railway, there might never have been a 'Lawrence of Arabia.' The saga of the rail line from Damascus to Madinah ? built by the Ottoman Turks to carry pilgrims to the Holy Places and targeted by Arab raiders during World War One ? is well told in this attractive coffee-table opus. The photographs, old and new, are wonderful, and by themselves justify the book.
