Hi all,
Great thread, and I had no idea about the Ralph Fiennes movie. I've found it on DVD for $20 and ordered it. Can't wait to see it!
I have to say when I worked on YI, I totally got into the history aspect of it. Besides already loving history (my mom's a historian), I didn't really know anything about this period of time. (My mom focuses on pre-Civil War, so we went to a lot of old 18th century houses when I was a kid but never any good WWI or WWII battlefields!)
One thing I discovered about TE Lawrence is that he did a prose translation of The Odyssey. It's quite good, and while I would always tell people to read the translated verse version first, it's a nice companion to that. Simply titled The Odyssey of Homer, it was published in 1932. I have a 1991 re-relesae. It was originally published by "TE Shaw" but that was a pen name. The book was a bestseller in its day.
Laird