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Lawrence's detractors, then and now, still argue that this was merely a pinprick in a sideshow of a sideshow compared with the western front, but it in fact was a modest first effort at a new kind of warfare-- in which an organized, modern, occupying army was forced to deal with small but lethal attacks by an enemy who appeared suddenly out of nowhere, struck hard, and vanished again; in which the ambush, the roadside or railway improvised explosive device, the grenade thrown onto a busy café terrace, the destruction of rolling stock, even the suicide bombers, would take the place of battle; and in which it was almost impossible to distinguish enemy combatants from the surroundings civilian population.

Michael Korda

Lawrence's detractors, then and now, still argue that this was merely a pinprick in a sideshow of a sideshow compared with the western front, but it in fact was a modest first effort at a new kind of warfare-- in which an organized, modern, occupying army was forced to deal with small but lethal attacks by an enemy who appeared suddenly out of nowhere, struck hard, and vanished again; in which the ambush, the roadside or railway improvised explosive device, the grenade thrown onto a busy café terrace, the destruction of rolling stock, even the suicide bombers, would take the place of battle; and in which it was almost impossible to distinguish enemy combatants from the surroundings civilian population.

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About Michael Korda

Michael Korda (born 8 October 1933) is an English-born writer and novelist who was editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster in New York City.