10 AUGUST 1962, Page 13

SIR—Years before Aldington's book the late Colonel George P. Linton

of the 7th Bn. HLI who was for a time Wavell's Brigade Major and on whom fell the duty of arresting one disciplineless subaltern an- noyed me, then—innocently misled by Graves and by Hart, themselves misled a lot less innocently by the man they were writing about—an admirer, by re- marking casually that Lawrence was a myth created by Lowell Thomas.

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