In the First World War Cairo hosted Australian and New Zealand troops training for Gallipoli, filled with military hospitals, and was home to the Arab Bureau, where T. E. Lawrence worked on the Arab Revolt. In the Second World War it was the seat of British Middle East Command, where David Stirling founded the SAS in 1941, and hosted Roosevelt, Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek in November 1943.
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A bored map officer at British headquarters, Lawrence is chosen to go into the Hejaz and find out what Prince Faisal intends.
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Back in Cairo, their secret affair unfolds among embassy parties and hotel rooms as war approaches.
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Fresh from Australia, the nurses start work in Cairo and meet the soldiers who will shape their lives, before the Gallipoli wounded pour in.
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Injured in a parachute jump, Stirling talks his way past the generals and wins approval for a small raiding force.
