The Mint Author:T.E. Lawrence This FAMOUS - in some respects, notorious - book is the story, alternately gripping and pathetic, bitter and humorous, of a super hero anxious to lose himself as an individual and to become part of a functioning military unit. All the barracks-room bawdy talk, the staggeringly hard training, and the exhausting boredom of military life are in th... more »is book by the author of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, and Revolt in the desert, T.E. Lawrence.« less