New York Times Bestseller"Lively, approachable, and captivating. Like Lee himself, everything about Clouds of Glory is on a grand scale." -Boston GlobeMichael Korda, the acclaimed biographer of Ulysses S. Grant and the bestsellers Ike and Hero, offers a brilliant, balanced, single-volume biography of Robert E. Lee, the first major study in a generationKorda paints a vivid and admiring portrait of Lee as a general and a devoted family man who, though he disliked slavery and was not in favor of secession, turned down command of the Union army in 1861 because he could not "draw his sword" against his own children, his neighbors, and his beloved Virginia. He was surely America's preeminent military leader, as calm, dignified, and commanding a presence in defeat as he was in victory. Lee's reputation has only grown in the 150 years since the Civil War, and Korda covers in groundbreaking detail all of Lee's battles and traces the making of a great man's undeniable reputation on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line, positioning him finally as the symbolic martyr-hero of the Southern Cause. Clouds of Glory features dozens of stunning illustrations, some never before seen, including eight pages of color images, sixteen pages of black-and-white images, and nearly fifty battle maps.

Clouds of Glory - The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee

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 accessible, full of common sense and down-to-earth advice, all of it based on twenty-five years of experience, the Kordas' book is a basic resource for anybody who wants to keep horses in a safe, content, healthy, and cost-effective way at home, from detailed lists of things you need to have on hand to the basic (and not so basic) dos and don'ts of horse care. Divided into such useful chapters as "Fencing and Paddocks, " "The Barn Routine, " "The Care of the Horse, " "People, " "Feeding and Caring for the Horse, " "Tack, " "Horse Clothing, " "Equipment, " and "Care for the Aging Horse, " it is helpfully illustrated and written in a voice that is at once informative, supportive, and full of funny (and not so funny) stories about horse housekeeping. The Kordas offer a unique and reliable guide to horse care that not only will be invaluable to beginner and experienced horse owners alike, but also is astonishingly readable. They take you through the steps of deciding if having a horse barn is practical for you, including helpful suggestions on space-saving barn designs, creating pastures, building fences, sample exercise routines, the right feed, the basics of horse health care, and the equipment needed for both horse care and property maintenance. This detailed, user-friendly compendium of down-home wisdom, entertaining stories, and straightforward horse sense will help you to set up a barn the right way, so you will have time to actually ride your horse.

Horse Housekeeping - Everything You Need to Know to Keep a Horse at Home

Les Immortels

"Dreaming of moving to the country? First, read Michael Korda's engaging memoir. City types will find laughter, profit, and fair warning in Country Matters." -Washington PostWith 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 transformation from city slicker to full-time country gentleman, complete with tractors, horses, and a leaking roof. When he decides to take up residence in an eighteenth-century farmhouse in Dutchess County, ninety miles north of New York City, Korda discovers what country life is really like: Owning pigs, more than owning horses, even more than owning the actual house, firmly anchored the Kordas as residents in the eyes of their Pleasant Valley neighbors. You may own your land, but without concertina barbed wire, or the 82nd Airborne on patrol, it's impossible to keep people off it! It's possible to line up major household repairs over a tuna melt sandwich. The locals are not particularly quick to accept these outsiders, and the couple's earliest interactions with their new neighbors provide constant entertainment, particularly when the Kordas discover that hunting season is a year-round event-right on their own land! From their closest neighbors, mostly dairy farmers, to their unforgettable caretaker Harold Roe-whose motto regarding the local flora is "Whack it all back! "-the residents of Pleasant Valley eventually come to realize that the Kordas are more than mere weekenders. Sure to have readers in stitches, this is a book that has universal appeal for all who have ever dreamed of owning that perfect little place to escape to up in the country, or, more boldly, have done it.

Country Matters - The Pleasures and Tribulations of Moving from a Big City to an Old Country Farmhouse

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 exploits as "Lawrence of Arabia" created a legacy of mythic proportions in his own lifetime. Many know T. E. Lawrence from David Lean's Oscar-winning 1962 biopic-based, itself, upon Lawrence's autobiographical Seven Pillars of Wisdom-but in the tradition of modern biographers like John Meacham, David McCullough, and Barbara Leaming, Michael Korda's penetrating new examination reveals new depth and character in the twentieth century's quintessential English hero.

Hero - The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia

Leurs regards se croisèrent pour la première fois un soir d'été 1954. " A l'instant même, écrit le narrateur, je sus qu'il y aurait des complications. " John était de passage chez des amis, dans une villa de Beverly Hills. Le sourire et le charme du jeune sénateur milliardaire électrisait l'assemblée californienne qui se pressait au bord de la piscine. Soudain, il y eut un silence théâtral. John se retourna et vit celle qui venait de l'éclipser.
Marilyn portait une robe moulante noire et scintillante, une étole de renard blanc et un sac à main bon marché. Elle avait l'air triste et désemparé d'une petite fille égarée parmi les grandes personnes.
" My God ! " murmura simplement John Kennedy. La plus extraordinaire histoire d'amour du XXe siècle venait de commencer.
" Si vous croyez tout savoir sur John Kennedy, Marilyn et Robert Kennedy, détrompez-vous. Michael Korda nous donne sa version de l'histoire dans un roman impossible à lâcher. "
Barbara Taylor Bradford.

Les immortels - Occasion

"A brilliantly vibrant and compulsively readable one-volume life of one of the giants of the twentieth century." -Michael Beschloss "A clear-eyed, grand-scale biography.

Ike - An American Hero

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Michael Korda, né le 8 octobre 1933 à Londres, est un écrivain britannique.

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