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    Masters of Mayhem: Lawrence of Arabia and the British Military Mission to the Hejaz

    By James Stejskal

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    Silver Medal winner in Military History Matters 'Book of the Year' Award
    “Written with great accuracy, detail, enthusiasm, and insight…” Military History Matters judges' comment


    Striking where the enemy is weakest and melting away into the darkness before he can react. Never confronting a stronger force directly, but willing to use audacity and surprise to confound and demoralize an opponent. Operations driven by good intelligence, area knowledge, mobility, speed, firepower, and detailed planning executed by a few specialists with indigenous warriors - this is unconventional warfare.

    T. E. Lawrence was one of the earliest practitioners of modern unconventional warfare. His tactics and strategies were used by men like Mao and Giap in their wars of liberation. Both kept Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom close at hand. This book looks at the creation of the HEDGEHOG force, the formation of armored car sections and other units, and focuses on the Hejaz Operations Staff, the Allied officers and men who took Lawrence’s idea and prosecuted it against the Ottoman Turkish army assisting Field Marshal Allenby to achieve victory in 1918.

    Stejskal concludes with an examination of how HEDGEHOG has influenced special operations and unconventional warfare, including Field Marshal Wavell, the Long Range Desert Group, and David Stirling's SAS
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCasemate
    Release dateJul 19, 2018
    ISBN9781612005751
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    Masters of Mayhem: Lawrence of Arabia and the British Military Mission to the Hejaz
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    James Stejskal

    James Stejskal, after 35 years of service with US Army Special Forces and the Central Intelligence Agency, is a uniquely qualified historian and novelist. He is the author of Special Forces Berlin: Clandestine Cold War Operations of the US Army’s Elite, 1956–1990; Masters of Mayhem: Lawrence of Arabia and the British Military Mission to the Hejaz; No Moon as Witness; and The Snake Eater Chronicles.

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    • 4/5
      The story of Arabia in WW1, for better or worse, inevitably revolves around Lawrence. There still remain many untold stories of those who made possible the Lawrence legend ... this book superbly tells some of those stories.The author tells of those who worked to supply, support and advance the Arab forces in the Hejaz and beyond. Also included are reports of some recent archaeological expeditions, by the author and others, of some of the sites mentioned in the book and in Lawrence's writings.Fascinating are the accounts of attacks by mixed Arab camel forces and British armoured cars. Plus the nitty-gritty of how the railway demolitions were carried out.