His attraction to airpower first emerged in 1915, when he worked in British army intelligence in Cairo. Yet Lawrence always was bound up with military aviation.
The public knows him as an Englishman in flowing white robes and riding a camel, leading sweeping attacks across the desert. Lawrence’s involvement in airpower long preceded his RAF tours. One of recent history’s most charismatic figures, laboring in anonymity, made important contributions to Britain’s airpower and did so from the lowly enlisted ranks. Yet Lawrence’s life after Arabia is remarkable, too. Most of Lawrence’s biographers give limited attention to this period and focus on the earlier exploits of the young, glamorous, Oxford-educated officer as he led Bedouin tribesmen against the Ottoman Empire in 1916-1918.
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