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But in the end Lawrence had made a promise to the Arabs that he couldn’t keep—
independence once the war was over. With the Allied victory came bitter disappointment when
Arab hopes for independence were betrayed, with Great Britain and France sharing the spoils.
This was a blow to Lawrence, too, and he refused to accept war medals from the British king.
He went on to write his war memoirs, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom—which was inspired by the
stillness and beauty of the desert landscapes he witnessed and the Bedouin people whose lives
he shared.

T. E. Lawrence later returned to the armed forces, hoping to serve in anonymity under
assumed names. But embittered by his country’s policy towards Arabs, he retired to his
cottage in Dorset, England in 1935. Two months later he was thrown from a motorcycle and
died at the age of 46.

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