Ronald Florence's Lawrence and Aaronsohn Reviewed in Boston Globe

The birth of Middle East strife viewed through the conflict of two men
By Michael Kenney | July 31, 2007
Boston Globe

Lawrence and Aaronsohn: T.E. Lawrence, Aaron Aaronsohn, and the Seeds of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, By Ronald Florence, Viking, 512 pp., illustrated,, $27.95

T.E. Lawrence, the fabled Lawrence of Arabia, and Aaron Aaronsohn, a Palestinian Jewish agronomist, met only a few times, meetings that were invariably brief and hostile -- "devoid of amenity," wrote Aaronsohn in his diary after one of those meetings.

But out of those encounters during the final years of World War I, Ronald Florence, an independent historian who lives in Providence, has created a revealing narrative about the territorial conflicts in the Middle East.

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