 The real T.E. Lawrence (qv) was actually riding from the Bovington  Army Camp to his cottage in Cloud Hill when his tragic accident  occurred. The scenes where Lawrence was tortured and assaulted by  the Turks was actually from the book "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom,"  the supplementary material of "Revolt in The Desert." Due to the  humiliation which he suffered, Lawrence refused to publish "The  Seven Pillars," his lifes work, but did publish it exclusively for  120 people only. The 120 people who read the book were delighted  with it, and the book was published sometime after Lawrence died.