Among the handful of British diplomats and military men aware of their government's secret policy in the Middle East-that the Arabs were being encouraged to fight and die on the strength of promises that had already been traded away-were many who regarded that policy as utterly shameful, an affront to British dignity.

Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East (ed. Atlantic Books Ltd, 2014) - ISBN: 9781782392019