Michael Korda

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1) Country matters: the pleasures and tribulations of moving from a big city to an old country farmhouse

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Korda, Michael

Pub. Date

c2001

2) With Wings Like Eagles

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Korda, Michael

Pub. Date

2009

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Michael Korda’s brilliant work of history takes the reader back to the summer of 1940, when fewer than three thousand young fighter pilots of the Royal Air Force–often no more than nine hundred on any given day–stood between Hitler and the victory that seemed almost within his grasp.

As Nazi Germany rearmed swiftly after 1933, building up its bomber force, only one man, Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding, the eccentric, infuriating,...

3) Clouds of glory: the life and legend of Robert E. Lee

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Korda, Michael

Pub. Date

[2014]

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"[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...

4) Hero: the life and legend of Lawrence of Arabia

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Korda, Michael

Pub. Date

c2010

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The acclaimed author of the "New York Times"-bestseller "Ike" returns with a definitive new biography of the legendary British scholar, adventurer, soldier, and hero who became a myth in his lifetime--T.E. Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia.