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He was aware that Britain wanted to break up the old Turkish empire and make sure that Britain got its fair share. An unexpurgated version of T E Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom has fuelled claims that the author was a sado-masochist.

Knightley disputed this interpretation, saying: "I doubt that Lawrence ever felt the guilt that a lot of his supporters attribute to him. The original manuscript, which has previously been read by only a few scholars, has prompted a debate about whether Lawrence, a British Army liaison officer in the First World War, considered suicide.

Some even question his claim that the first draft of Seven Pillars was stolen when he was changing trains at Reading station in Only six copies of the original manuscript exist, including one previously owned by George Bernard Shaw with corrections from the author and now kept in the British Library in London.

Among the most memorable passages are the vivid descriptions of desert landscapes and the Bedouin tribespeople he lived with during the Arab Revolt. It seems to me he knew only too well what he was doing. Bruce was paid to birch Lawrence and then write an account of Lawrence's bearing under the birching.

The new details will further fuel debate about the enigmatic author who is the subject of much disagreement among scholars. It sort of cried out that this is Lawrence writing for his own interest and delectation. Jeremy Wilson, author of Lawrence of Arabia, The Authorised Biographysaid the text shows that Lawrence felt guilty after he encouraged the Arabs to rise up and fight.

Philip Knightley, a Lawrence expert, believes the rape scene in the latest version, which is pages longer than the original, bears the hallmarks of a fantasist.

Sex and T E :

Much of Lawrence's life is the subject of debate but signs of his alleged sexual deviancy first emerged when letters showed he paid a man to beat him with birches. The letters were collected by Lawrence who read them again and got two kicks for his buck, so to speak.

You were able to use Faisal to get what you wanted. In the scramble of all the colonial powers the Arabs were betrayed. In the original, Lawrence describes Faisal as "a very weak man, an empty man. Seven Pillars typified Lawrence's skill at observing people, places and events.

He knew they would not get an independent state in exchange for their help because France and Britain had other plans. The romantic story of his campaigns in Arabia appealed to a British public sated with horrific accounts of trench warfare on the Western Front.

Wilson told BBC Radio 4: "When he realised how duplicitous his role was he became upset about it and went off on a spying mission to Damascus but the point is he was hoping to get killed on the way. The post traumatic effects of same sex rape often last a lifetime, T.E.

Lawrence manifested all the classic symptoms: workaholism, depression, anger, increased sense of vulnerability, destructive self-image, emotional distancing. He said: "It was so redolent of the sort of sado-masochistic literature that you get in the Charing Cross Road.

There is no reference to that in the final text but there is an allusion to it in this [original] text. The original edition of the wartime masterpiece to be published next month includes a lengthy account of Lawrence of Arabia's rape by Turkish forces which scholars believe may have been invented for his own "delectation".

The homoerotic history of archaeologist TE Lawrence who inspired Lawrence Of Arabia, the movie that put Jordan on the map. The original version also offers a less flattering view of the Arab leader Faisal who later became the King of Iraq.

An unexpurgated version of T E Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom has fuelled claims that the author was a sado-masochist.