Michael Korda
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xlii, 785 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"[P]ortrait of Lee as a brilliant general, a devoted family man, and principled gentleman who disliked slavery and disagreed with secession, yet who refused command of the Union Army in 1861 because he could not "draw his sword" against his beloved Virginia. Well-rounded and realistic, Clouds of Glory analyzes Lee's command during the Civil War and explores his responsibility for the fatal stalemate at Antietam, his defeat at Gettysburg (as well the...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xx, 779 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
This biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower places particular emphasis on his brilliant generalship and leadership in World War II, and provides, with the advantage of hindsight, a far more acute analysis of his character and personality than any previously available, reaching the conclusion that he was perhaps America's greatest general and one of America's best presidents. The book starts with the story of D-Day--it was Ike's plan, Ike's decision, Ike's...
Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Ike and Horse People, Michael Korda, comes With Wings Like Eagles, the harrowing story of The Battle of Britain, one of the most important battles of World War II. In the words of the Washington Post Book World, "With Wings Like Eagles is a skillful, absorbing, often moving contribution to the popular understanding of one of the few episodes in history ... to deserve the description 'heroic.'"
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"A lavishly illustrated edition of Michael Korda's acclaimed biography of the man who ended the Civil War, served two terms as president, and wrote one of the most successful military memoirs in American literature. Ulysses S. Grant was the first officer since George Washington to become a four-star general in the United States Army, and the only president between Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilson to serve eight consecutive years in the White House....
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
viii, 303 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
With his inimitable sense of humor and storytelling talent, New York Times bestselling author Michael Korda brings us this charming, hilarious, self-deprecating memoir of a city couple's new life in the country. At once entertaining, canny, and moving, Country Matters does for Dutchess County, New York, what Under the Tuscan Sun did for Tuscany. This witty memoir, replete with Korda's own line drawings, reads like a novel, as it chronicles the author's...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 525 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, facsimile ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Combining epic history with rich family stories, Michael Korda chronicles the outbreak of World War II and the great events that led to Dunkirk. In an absorbing work peopled with world leaders, generals, and ordinary citizens who fought on both sides of World War II, [this book] brings to resounding life perhaps the most critical year of twentieth-century history. For, indeed, May 1940 was a month like no other, as the German war machine blazed...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 367 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bestselling author Michael Korda's Horse People is the story -- sometimes hilariously funny, sometimes sad and moving, always shrewdly observed -- of a lifetime love affair with horses, and of the bonds that have linked humans with horses for more than ten thousand years. It is filled with intimate portraits of the kind of people, rich or poor, Eastern or Western, famous or humble, whose lives continue to revolve around the horse.
Korda is a terrific...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a divison of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
239 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of The Year of Magical Thinking comes a legendary editor's unflinching love song about his radiant wife, Margaret, and her battle with cancer. It was a warm April in Pleasant Valley when Margaret Korda, normally a fearless horsewoman, dropped her horsewhip while she was riding. Such a mild slip was easy to ignore, but when other troubling symptoms accumulated, she confided to her husband, 'Michael, I think something serious is wrong...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xv, 221 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was perhaps the most dramatic single event of the Cold War and a major turning point in history. Though it ended unsuccessfully, the spontaneous uprising of Hungarians against their country's Communist party and the Soviet occupation forces in the wake of Stalin's death demonstrated to the world at large the failure of Communism. In full view of the Western media-and therefore the world-the Russians were obliged to...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1979
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
498 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A Rolls Royce Silver Cloud drove him to airports; the British film industry kowtowed to his power; the great Hollywood studios fawned at his feet. Sir Alexander Korda, one of the world's most flamboyant movie tycoons, rose from obscurity in rural Hungary to become a legendary filmmaker. With him were his brothers, Zoltan and Vincent, all living charmed lives in circles that included H. G. Wells, Sir Lawrence Olivier, Marlena Dietrich, Vivien Leigh,...
15) The fortune
Author
Publisher
Summit Books
Pub. Date
©1989
Physical Desc
481 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Alexa, a beautiful young woman falls in love with an older man, Arthur Bannerman, head of America's richest family.
18) Worldly goods
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1982
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
353 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English