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Alone - Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk : Defeat Into Victory by Michael Korda
Category: History
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, Alone brings to resounding life perh ...Show more
Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat into Victory by Michael Korda
Category: History
No one can evince the drama of what actually happened at Dunkirk in the year 1940 with as "great narrative skill and superb delineation" (David McCullough) as Michael Korda, the historian and legendary book editor. As dramatized in Christopher Nolan's film Dunkirk, May 1940 was a month like no other: Ge ...Show more
Catnip - A Love Story by Michael Korda
Category: Gift
With the imagination of a writer and the eye of an artist, Michael Korda doodled on the backs of old manuscripts in his tackroom while his wife, Margaret, was out riding. They loved and acquired cats-a habit written about previously in their book, Cat People-and the few in residence at this time would s ...Show more
Clouds of Glory: The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee by Michael Korda
Category: Biography
In Clouds of Glory: The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee, Michael Korda, the New York Times bestselling biographer of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ulysses S. Grant, and T. E. Lawrence, has written the first major biography of Lee in nearly twenty years, bringing to life one of America's greatest, most iconic h ...Show more
Hero: The Life & Legend of Lawrence of Arabia by Michael Korda
Category: Non-Fiction
Michael Korda's Hero is an epic biography of the mysterious,Englishman whose daring exploits made him an object of intense fascination, known the world over as 'Lawrence of Arabia. An Oxford Scholar and archaeologist, T.E. Lawrence was sent to Cairo as an intelligence officer in 1916 and vanished into t ...Show more
Journey to a Revolution: A Personal Memoir and History of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 by Michael Korda
Category: Biography
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was not just an extraordinary and dramatic event--perhaps the most dramatic single event of the Cold War--but, as we can now see fifty years later, a major turning point in history. Here is an eyewitness account, in the tradition of George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia. ...Show more
Ulysses S. Grant: The Unlikely Hero by Michael Korda
Category: History
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 in nearly a century - between Andrew Jackson in 1929 and Woodrow Wilson in 1913 - to serve eight consecutive years in the White House. Revered for his skill and ...Show more
Ulysses S. Grant: The Unlikely Hero by Michael Korda
Category: Biography | Series: Eminent Lives Ser.
One of the first two volumes in Harper's Eminent Lives series, Korda brings his acclaimed storytelling talents to the life of Ulysses S. Grant - a man who managed to end the Civil War on a note of grace, serve two terms as president, write one of the most successful military memoirs in American literatu ...Show more
With Wings Like Eagles: The Untold Story of the Battle of Britain by Michael Korda
Category: Non-Fiction
"[With Wings Like Eagles is] bold and refreshing... Korda writes with great elegance and flair."--Wall Street Journal 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 b ...Show more
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