根据基奇纳本人的命令，有人试图贿赂库特围攻战的土耳其指挥官，以换取价值一百万英镑的黄金，放走汤森德的军队。如果劳伦斯对接受这一可耻的指令感到不满，他从不表露出来，这在英国军事史上几乎是史无前例的。不过，最近两次提醒他军事文化的虚伪和虚伪。
(Under orders from Kitchener himself, an attempt was to be made to bribe the Turkish commander of the Kut siege into letting Townshend's army go in return for one million English pounds' worth of gold. If Lawrence resented being the bearer of this shameful instruction, almost without precedent in British military history, he never let on. Then again, he'd very recently been given two reminders of the puffery and hypocrisy of military culture.)
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