Michael Korda: 16 books
Another Life
A Memoir of Other People
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
In his remarkable memoir, at once frank, audacious, canny, and revealing, Michael Korda, the author of Charmed Lives and Queenie, does for the world of books what Moss Hart did for the theater in Act One, and succeeds triumphantly in making publishing seem as exciting (and as full of great characters)...
Country Matters
The Pleasures and Tribulations of Moving from a Big City to an Old Country Farmhouse
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
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,...
by Michael Korda
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
From silly to sweet, 365 cat sketches by Michael Korda, drawn with love for his wife
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...
by Michael Korda, Margaret Korda
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
With characteristic wit, self–effacing charm and sheer, exuberant love of a good cat story, New York Times bestselling author Michael Korda and his wife Margaret Korda recount their lives as "cat people," beginning with Margaret's passion for cats (and Michael's reluctant mid–life transformation...
Clouds of Glory
The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
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...
Ulysses S. Grant
The Unlikely Hero
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
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...
Charmed Lives
A Family Romance
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
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...
Hero
The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
From Michael Korda, author of the New York Times bestselling Eisenhower biography Ike and the captivating Battle of Britain book With Wings Like Eagles, comes the critically-acclaimed definitive biography of T. E. Lawrence—the legendary British soldier, strategist, scholar, and adventurer whose...
Ulysses S. Grant
The Unlikely Hero
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
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...
by Michael Korda
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
One of the most miraculous military rescue missions in modern history comes alive in this “superb and panoramic” (Washington Post) account of Dunkirk.
No one can evince the drama of what actually happened at Dunkirk in the year 1940 with as “great narrative skill and superb delineation”...
With Wings Like Eagles
A History of the Battle of Britain
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
“[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...
Horse People
Scenes from the Riding Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
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...
Horse Housekeeping
Everything You Need to Know to Keep a Horse at Home
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
In Horse Housekeeping, Margaret and Michael Korda (she is a successful novice- and training-level eventer and he is the author of Horse People) provide everything you need to know to set up a barn of your own and care for your horse (or horses) at home.
Authoritative, inspirational, highly...
Man to Man
Surviving Prostate Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
Although prostate cancer is a disease that strikes nearly 200,000 men every year, it is a disease that has been shrouded in silence, in part because it strikes at the very core of masculine identity. But in Man to Man, bestselling author Michael Korda breaks that silence, turning the story of his...
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