Lawrence of Fantasia: "T.E. Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, whom Winston Churchill extolled as the most chivalrous figure of the First World War, entertained the boldest hopes that the defeat of the Ottoman Empire would produce free Arab nations. In Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph (1926), Lawrence calls the struggle, in which he was the chief hero, an "Arab war waged and led by Arabs for an Arab aim in Arabia." But the war would not have taken place without his leadership. The book shows him instructing his Arab charges in the practice of civilized warfare, which requires a cool-headedness to overcome instinctive native heat."