The bestselling author of "Ike" returns with the first complete history of one of the most significant conflicts of World War II--the Battle of Britain.
This is a big, ambitious, and enthralling new biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower, full of fascinating details and anecdotes, which places particular emphasis on his brilliant generalship and leadership in World War Two, and provides, with the advantage of hindsight, a far more acute analysis of his character and personality than any that has ...
The fun begins when a former editor at Simon & Schuster and his wife move from New York City to an as-yet-unrenovated home, circa 1785, in Dutchess County, New York. Extensive refurbishing of the house, stables, and vast acreage bring a steady cast of quirky country characters in to their lives, and their roster of hobbies grows to include bidding ...
Queenie Kelley, a poor, half-caste girl from Calcutta, catapulted from the slums by an illicit passion and a single reckless act that shaped her destiny. She becomes Dawn Avalon, a legendary movie star. But would her past ever catch up on her?
Korda, the editor-in-chief of the publishing firm Simon & Schuster, holds the record for editing the most bestsellers in a single year. Here he muses on 100 years of bestseller lists, offering in his focused study a meditation on both the book industry and American literary tastes.
This collection includes profiles of Tennessee Williams, Harold Robbins, Ronald Reagan and other people Korda met and worked with during his long and distinguished publishing career. A New York Times Notable Book in 1999.
A novel based on the turbulent love affair between Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. Michael Korda is the author of "Charmed Lives", "Worldly Goods", "Queenie" and "The Fortune".
In this novel the author reveals the truth about Marilyn Monroe and Jack and Bobby Kennedy. Their affair has been whispered about for 30 years, here Korda takes real life characters and fictionalizes their story. The author also wrote "Queenie" and "Curtain".
In the autumn of 1994, Michaeal Korda was diagnosed as having prostate cancer. For several years he had been examined, tested and given medication, always with the assurance that everything was alright - until it wasn't. But the discovery of the actual cancer was only the beginning of his ordeal. This autobiography relates not only what he and his ...
Michael Korda's sort-of-sequel to COUNTRY MATTERS is a humorous account of his own love of riding, the old farmhouse in upstate New York where he and his wife Margaret keep their horses, and Margaret's involvement in the world of competitive horsemanship. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003.
"Journey to a Revolution" is at once a history and a compelling memoir, the story of four twenty-four year old Oxford undergraduates who took off for Budapest in a beat-up old Volkswagon convertible in October 1956, to bring badly needed medicine to the Budapest hospitals and to participate, at street level, in one of the great, heroic battes of ...
Challenges opinions about the Civil War general's presidency, explaining how Grant enabled the country to achieve a sense of post-war calm and applied constructive political strategies in favor of less effective occupation tactics.
Eminent Lives in american political history A perfect gift for your favorite history buff, or for your own collection, this audio set from the acclaimed "Eminent Lives" series is a must for anyone interested in the story of America. George Washington: The Founding Father Celebrated journalist and historian Paul Johnson paints a vivid portrait ...
In this frank, informative, and above all, hopeful book, Michael Korda--the editor in chief of Simon and Schister, as well as the author of the acclaimed book about his family, Charmed Lives--gives readers an his intensely intimate and personal account of his encounter with and triumph over prostate cancer.
The authors share their 25 years of experience with keeping horses at home, covering everything from barn design, pastures, fencing, exercise routines, feed, health care, and the equipment needed for both horse care and property maintenance. Photos and illustrations.
In this novel Arthur Bannerman, heir to the Bannerman fortune, dies in the bed of his young wife leaving her to fight his ruthless family. The book has been sold for a TV mini series and the author has also written "Queenie", "Worldly Goods" and "Male Chauvinism".
The ultimate publishing insider illuminates the tantalizing glitz, glamour, and sordid excess of pulp fiction queen Jacqueline Susann. Based on a chapter from Korda's new memoir, "Another Life, Isn't She Great" is also an eagerly anticipated film from Universal Pictures.
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