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 this... more » book by the author of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, and Revolt in the Desert, T.E. Lawrence.« less