Eyewitness accounts by Arabs, Westerners, and T.E. Lawrence himself tell the poignant and dramatic tale of one of the 20th century's most influential yet enigmatic figures. This British Army officer's role in the unification of the Arab tribes against the Turks during World War I endeared him to a generation of Bedouins, but also set in motion a chain of events that Lawrence would be powerless to stop-events that would profoundly shape Arab-Western relations for generations to come.