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Veteran war correspondent Scott Anderson explains how the Arab Revolt against the Turks during World War I was shaped by a handful of adventurers, with T E Lawrence at the heart. Lawrence described the Arab Revolt as ‘a sideshow of a sideshow’. As a result, there was little attention paid by governments to what was going on. While Lawrence battled his own government and the enemy to realise his vision for the Arab people, there were also three other important players working to their own ends, a German attaché, an American oilman and a committed Zionist.

Anderson has reported from Lebanon, Israel, Egypt, Chechnya, Northern Ireland, Sudan, Bosnia and El Salvador. He has written two novels, Moonlight Hotel and Triage, and two non-fiction books, The Man Who Tried to Save the World and the 4 O’Clock Murders.