My friend Bruce Leigh, who has died aged 75, was an intellectual with a wide range of interests. He studied Marx, Hegel and Kant, and went all the way back to the pre-Socratic philosophers.
He also had an interest from his early teens in Lawrence of Arabia, and, dissatisfied with popular interpretations of his life, sought to understand the man through the large and eclectic library that Lawrence left behind at Clouds Hill, his house in Dorset. The result, after 10 years of writing, was Bruce’s study, Lawrence: Warrior and Scholar (2014).
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