Lawrance of Arabia isn't killed in the motorbike accient?

What he hadn't died at that motorcycle accient in the early 1930s. At had been live at the outbreak of WW2.

Would the Middle East had been different after WW2?

/Fred
 
What would be interesting if he lives until present day and he could voice his opinions on the War on Terror and the contemporary Middle East but he would have to be really really old. He turns 100 in 1988 so by now he would be what... 120!
 
When WWII comes around is he going to remain Aircraftsman T E Shaw. Despite his wish to runaway from his fame in wartime all things are used. He would put to use in the Middle East and North Africa for encouraging Arabs to support the allies rather than the Nazis
 
When WWII comes around is he going to remain Aircraftsman T E Shaw. Despite his wish to runaway from his fame in wartime all things are used. He would put to use in the Middle East and North Africa for encouraging Arabs to support the allies rather than the Nazis

Could he with his good relations with the Saudis have talked the arabs away from attacking Israel?

/Fred
 
Could he with his good relations with the Saudis have talked the arabs away from attacking Israel?

/Fred

Didn't he back the Hashemites? The ones that Abdulaziz Ibn Saud drove out?


Vladimir Peniakoff (Popski of "Popski's Private Army") told about trying to invoke the magic name of "el-Aurens" to a Libyan. It meant nothing to him.

And the Libyan desert explorers had a community, Popski in with Ralph Bagnold and the rest of them. Aircraftman Shaw would be an outsider, and well behind the times. (So much for Susan Shwartz.)
 
I don't think he'd be terribly popular with the natives any more after practically all of his promises had fallen flat. But he could well be used in some advispory or diplomatic role with plenty of media coverage along the lines of "Even the unworldly and critical now support the war effort. Lawrence, here seen leaving a conference with the king of Jordan..."
 
Susan Schwartz wrote a story about Lawrence meeting Churchill and having to go on a mission to meet Erwin Rommel.It was one of a series of books edited by Greg Benford I believe.Will come up with title as soon as I find my copy.
 
Susan Schwartz wrote a story about Lawrence meeting Churchill and having to go on a mission to meet Erwin Rommel.It was one of a series of books edited by Greg Benford I believe.Will come up with title as soon as I find my copy.

"Loose Cannon"

http://www.uchronia.com/bib.cgi/label.html?id=shwaloosec

There are a number of other such "Oh if only someone could have persuaded Rommel," stories. Some are openly fiction, such as Rommel and the Rebel by Lawrence Wells:

http://www.amazon.com/Rommel-Rebel-Lawrence-Wells/dp/091624265X/ref=si3_rdr_bb_product

Some claim not to be, such as The Unknown Warrior (UK title) Code Name NIMROD (US title):

http://www.amazon.com/Code-Name-Nim...bs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1206214786&sr=1-1

But there was one actual case when Rommel met with a German-speaking prisoner, of the No. 10 (Inter-Allied) Commando. He was not persuaded.


I'll add that Aircraftman (ret.) Shaw was himself a loose cannon. Apparently he had ties to some not exactly reputable organizations.
 
He'd be arrested and tortured to death the minute he stepped foot in the Mid East for tricking them into f#$%ing themselves over for at least the next 100 years.

But more likely he would have self-destructed in some pathetic way.

What he hadn't died at that motorcycle accient in the early 1930s. At had been live at the outbreak of WW2.

Would the Middle East had been different after WW2?

/Fred
 
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