The Mint: A Day-Book Of The R.A.F. Depot Between August And December 1922 With Later Notes
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: First Edition.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Few literary figures have lived as dangerously and written as compellingly as T. E. Lawrence, and The Mint stands as one of his most raw and revelatory works. Written under the pseudonym 352087 A/c Ross — the service number and alias Lawrence adopted when he enlisted in the Royal Air Force — this day-book chronicles his experiences as an ordinary recruit at the R.A.F. Depot between August and December 1922, offering an unvarnished, ground-level portrait of military life stripped of all romance or glory. Where Seven Pillars of Wisdom presents Lawrence as the architect of desert warfare, The Mint strips away the legend entirely, presenting instead a man deliberately losing himself in the brutal rhythms of institutional life — the drill, the degradation, the strange camaraderie of the barracks. Lawrence's prose is urgent and visceral, infused with both literary precision and an almost masochistic candour that continues to unsettle and fascinate readers decades after its composition. Published posthumously in its complete form, this is a document that asks a deeply unsettling question: what does a man of extraordinary gifts seek when he surrenders himself to the anonymous machinery of service?
Author: T. E. Lawrence
Format: Hardback
Published: 1955, Jonathan Cape
Genre: Biography
Edition: First Edition.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Few literary figures have lived as dangerously and written as compellingly as T. E. Lawrence, and The Mint stands as one of his most raw and revelatory works. Written under the pseudonym 352087 A/c Ross — the service number and alias Lawrence adopted when he enlisted in the Royal Air Force — this day-book chronicles his experiences as an ordinary recruit at the R.A.F. Depot between August and December 1922, offering an unvarnished, ground-level portrait of military life stripped of all romance or glory. Where Seven Pillars of Wisdom presents Lawrence as the architect of desert warfare, The Mint strips away the legend entirely, presenting instead a man deliberately losing himself in the brutal rhythms of institutional life — the drill, the degradation, the strange camaraderie of the barracks. Lawrence's prose is urgent and visceral, infused with both literary precision and an almost masochistic candour that continues to unsettle and fascinate readers decades after its composition. Published posthumously in its complete form, this is a document that asks a deeply unsettling question: what does a man of extraordinary gifts seek when he surrenders himself to the anonymous machinery of service?