Angielski
Michael Kordas Hero is the story of an epic life on a grand scale: a revealing, in-depth, and gripping biography of the extraordinary, mysterious, and dynamic Englishman whose daring exploits and romantic profileincluding his blond, sun-burnished good looks and flowing white robesmade him an object of intense fascination, still famous the world over as Lawrence of Arabia. An Oxford scholar and archaeologist, one of five illegitimate sons of a British aristocrat who ran away with his daughters governess, Lawrence was sent to Cairo as a young intelligence officer in 1916. He vanished into the desert in 1917 only to emerge later as one of the greatestand certainly most colorfulfigures of World War One. Though a foreigner, he played a leading and courageous part in uniting the Arab tribes to defeat the Turks, and eventually capture Damascus, transforming himself into a world-famous hero, hailed as the Uncrowned King of Arabia.
