Thursday, March 19, 2015

Readalikes: If you enjoyed March's selection . . .

If you enjoyed Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson, then you might also like these books, articles, and films suggested by our discussion members:

Books--Nonfiction 
Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph by T. E. Lawrence; Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan; No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes by Anand Gopal, and Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, especially the chapters on imperialism.

Books--Fiction
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje; The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell; and The Raj Quartet by Paul Scott

Articles
The Atlantic March 2015 article What ISIS Really Wants by Graeme Wood and The New Yorker January 5, 2015 article A Century of Silence about the Armenian genocide.

Films
The 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia directed by David Lean and starring Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Alec Guinness, and Anthony Quinn; the 1981 film Gallipoli directed by Peter Weir and starring Mel Gibson and Mark Lee; and the 1984 British television mini-series The Jewel in the Crown.