Remaking the Middle East
Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen writes in his Middle East Diary 1917-1956:
“It would have been better for our country and perhaps for the world if CM Doughty, [TE] Lawrence and Gertrude Bell had not been such admirable and persuasive writers.” Doughty (1843-1926) was the author of Travels in Arabia Deserta, which greatly influenced Lawrence and Bell.