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The Soldier Poets Who Knew About War
Muse of Fire: World War I as Seen Through the Lives of the Soldier Poets By Michael Korda (Liveright Publications, 381 pages, $30) The First World War saw an outburst of poetic creativity unmatched in European history. Fueled by bitter anger at a war that destroyed the comfortable world of Victorian prosperity and complacency, the so-called “war poets” changed the nature and themes of English poetry forever.
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- Our regular look at new Books that have recently caught the eye of our print and online editors this month. The library thief de Keeping Shenjé A first novel with gothic accents in which Florence, the daughter of a bookbinder, takes charge of restoring a collection of rare books in the disturbing Rose Hall. When the library is broken into and a book is discovered half-burnt in the fireplace, Florence finds herself embroiled in the mystery of the owner’s late wife… Published by Little, Brown.
How Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon Forged a Literary and Romantic Bond
Wilfred Owen first mentioned the presence of a new star on his horizon on August 15, 1917. He had been busy acting, editing the hospital magazine, arguing with his mother by letter about whether Christianity and the war were compatible (he thought not, and he had hard words to say about the Archbishop of Canterbury, who did). So he may not have noticed at first the presence of Siegfried Sassoon.
The King of the Deal
The first time I remember hearing Irving Lazar’s name was in 1950, at Eden Roc, on the Cap d’Antibes. “Nobody who matters calls Lazar Swifty,” my Uncle Alex warned me. “He hates the bloody name.” Lazar was then in his forties, I suppose, and was already an internationally famous superagent in the Myron Selznick-Leland Hayward tradition.
The Making of Kennedy Charisma
They could make Hollywood stars look small-time the moment they walked through the door. Michael Korda on Jack, Bobby, and Teddy and the magnetism that died with them. Updated Feb. 27, 2020 3:42PM ET / Published Aug. 27, 2009 6:54PM ET BEAST INSIDE I never met Sen. Edward M.
Joe Kennedy’s Sex-Soaked Hollywood Fling
My uncle, Sir Alexander Korda, who came to Hollywood in 1926 to direct his wife, the Hungarian silent film star Maria Corda, in The Private Life of Helen of Troy, worked briefly for the studio owned and controlled at the time by Joseph P. Kennedy, and on his first day on the lot gave the financier and father of President-to-be John F. Kennedy a courtly bow as he passed him.
"Passing: A Memoir Of Love And Death" By Michael Korda
The Grace Project is an empowering photographic project by fine art photographer Charise Isis that captures the courage beauty and grace of those who have had mastectomy surgery as a result of breast cancer. The very act of standing in front of a camera revealing their scars, allows each of her subjects a transformative experience, giving them permission to step into self acceptance and the opportunity to share the story of the scars that have been written on their body.
In 'Passing,' there is no antidote to anguish
“Passing: A Memoir of Love and Death” By Michael Korda Liveright, 239 pages, $24.95 Those of us who are members of that enormous, sad club — the club of people who have lost loved ones to cancer — will find much that resonates in Michael Korda’s new book.
Review: 'Passing,' by Michael Korda
Those of us who are members of that enormous, sad club — the club of people who have lost loved ones to cancer — will find much that resonates in Michael Korda’s new book. Written in plain, straightforward prose, “Passing” is the memoir of a man who stuffs himself with facts and information about brain tumors and cancer in hopes that knowledge will help him get through the anguish of watching his beautiful wife die. But there is no antidote to anguish. The word “beautiful” is important here.
Book World: A strong-willed wife, her devoted husband and a losing battle with cancer
Passing: A Memoir of Love and Death By Michael Korda Liveright. 224 pp. $24.95 --- In her husband's eyes, Margaret Korda was unstoppable, and as beautiful as she was inscrutable. A former model, she loved the outdoors and was an outstanding horsewoman who won five national championships. At 79, she was still robust and "virtually unscathed" by the drags of aging, riding twice a day.
Book World: A strong-willed wife, her devoted husband and a losing battle with cancer
Passing: A Memoir of Love and Death Passing: A Memoir of Love and Death Photo: Liveright, Handout Photo: Liveright, Handout Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Image 1 of 1 Passing: A Memoir of Love and Death Passing: A Memoir of Love and Death Photo: Liveright, Handout Passing: A Memoir of Love and Death By Michael Korda Liveright. 224 pp. $24.95 --- In her husband's eyes, Margaret Korda was unstoppable, and as beautiful as she was inscrutable.
Review | A strong-willed wife, her devoted husband and a losing battle with cancer
Connie Schultz is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist in Cleveland. Her novel, “The Daughter of Erietown” will be published in June. In her husband’s eyes, Margaret Korda was unstoppable, and as beautiful as she was inscrutable. A former model, she loved the outdoors and was an outstanding horsewoman who won five national championships. At 79, she was still robust and “virtually unscathed” by the drags of aging, riding twice a day.
Passing: A Memoir of Love and Death
It’s a sad reality that memoirs about encounters with cancer are part of a burgeoning literary genre, but it’s not often the case that their authors bring to their creation the literary pedigree of a Michael Korda. For many years the editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster, Korda also has produced a bookshelf worth of memoirs, histories and other assorted works.
Valley Of The Dolls
Before Jackie Collins, Candace Bushnell and Lena Dunham, Jacqueline Susann held the world rapt with her tales of the private passions of Hollywood starlets, high-powered industrialists and the jet-set. Valley of the Dolls took the world by storm when it was first published, fifty years ago. Never had a book been so frank about sex, drugs and show business. It is often sited as the bestselling novel of all time. Dolls – red or black; capsules or tablets; washed down with vodka or swallowed straight.
Military History Book Review: Journey to a Revolution
By Robert Guttman 11/14/2018 • Military History Magazine Journey to a Revolution by Michael Korda, Harper Collins Publishers, New York, N.Y., 2006, $24.95. Fifty years have now passed since the tragically unsuccessful rebellion of the Hungarians against the Stalinist government imposed upon them by the Soviet Union.
Review | NetGalley
Member Review Alone by Michael Korda Pub Date: 19 Sep 2017 Review by Lynn C, Media Last updated on 09 Aug 2017 I Recommend This Book Strongly I Recommend This Book Strongly This fascinating, historical account of the events that led to World War II will find many readers who have heard about the 2017 film "Dunkirk," and the miraculous rescue of some 300,000 British troops. Highly recommended, especially for readers who are too young to be familiar with this epic story. Buy this Book on
Military History Book Review: Ike- An American Hero
In 1945 Dwight Eisenhower was the man of the hour, and in 1952 Americans liked Ike well enough to put him in the White House for eight years. But by the end of his administration, overshadowed by the charismatic Jack and Jackie, he was widely seen as an old duffer who paid more attention to his golf swing than he did to running the country. Since his death, Ike has fared better. This adulatory new biography is just the latest in a long line.
The 3 Royal Cousins of World War One
A famous review by Nora Ephron of Jacqueline Susann’s Valley of the Dolls compared reading that most famous of first novels to “masturbating while eating M&Ms,” and the same phrase might be applied to any book that gives the reader a guilty pleasure. It doesn’t have to be a novel, of course. It’s only necessary to experience intense enjoyment coupled with the shame-faced feeling that what we’re reading is, to put it bluntly, good trash.
Target Tokyo by James M. Scott
A Pulitzer Prize finalist: In the wake of Pearl Harbor, daredevil pilot Jimmy Doolittle led 16 US Army bombers to Japan in a pivotal, retaliatory mission. “One of the most incredible accounts of American military valor I’ve ever read” (New York Times bestselling author Pat Conroy). featured on BookBub on August 08, 2018 Finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in History.
W. W. Norton & Company
Combining epic history with rich family stories, Michael Korda chronicles the outbreak of World War Two and the great events that led to Dunkirk. An epic of remarkable originality, Alone captures the heroism of World War II as movingly as any book in recent memory.
Nickel Driven to Two-Year High on Electric Car Bet
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Rep. Blumenauer Says GOP 'All Over the Map' on Tax Bill
19:20Alon RosinOppenheimer & Co Inc, Mng Dir/Head:Instl Equity Derivatives19:30George A MagnusUniversity of Oxford, Associate:China Centre19:30Christopher C Collins "Chris"(US)House of Representatives, New York Congressman (R)20:00David...
Trump Backs Nixing Individual Mandate in Tax Bill
19:20Alon RosinOppenheimer & Co Inc, Mng Dir/Head:Instl Equity Derivatives19:30George A MagnusUniversity of Oxford, Associate:China Centre19:30Christopher C Collins "Chris"(US)House of Representatives, New York Congressman (R)20:00David...
Trump Says Janet Yellen Is 'Excellent'
19:20Alon RosinOppenheimer & Co Inc, Mng Dir/Head:Instl Equity Derivatives19:30George A MagnusUniversity of Oxford, Associate:China Centre19:30Christopher C Collins "Chris"(US)House of Representatives, New York Congressman (R)20:00David...
Trump Calls for End to Diversity Lottery Program
19:30George A MagnusUniversity of Oxford, Associate:China Centre19:30Christopher C Collins "Chris"(US)House of Representatives, New York Congressman (R)20:00David KirkpatrickTechonomy Media, CEO/Founder20:20Louise YamadaLouise Yamada Techresearch...
Book review: How a military catastrophe became Britain’s “finest hour”
Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat Into Victory By Michael Korda (Norton.) By Marianne Szegedy-Maszak, Special To The Washington Post Like Waterloo and Stalingrad, Gettysburg and the Somme, Dunkirk is a place that has become shorthand for a blood-drenched turning point in a greater war. Each name is resonant with misbegotten strategy, unforgiving terrain and the loss of life in truly epic proportions — even when measured by an already costly war.
'Alone' examines the cinematic appeal of the 'England alone' World War II scenario
—It's helpful to remember right at the outset of Alone, Michael Korda's new book about how a defiant Great Britain stood alone against the Europe-conquering might of Nazi Germany, that a defiant Great Britain never stood alone against the Europe-conquering might of Nazi Germany.
Splendid Isolation
Dunkirk a film directed by Christopher Nolan by Michael Korda Liveright, 525 pp., $29.95 Melinda Sue Gordon/Warner Bros. Fionn Whitehead as a young British soldier in Christopher Nolan’s film Dunkirk Christopher Nolan’s epic movie about the rescue of the British army from the beaches of northeastern France in May 1940 has become a worldwide box office success. This is splendid news for its makers, and can do no harm to American, Taiwanese, or for that matter Rajput audiences.
Peter Caddick-Adams’s Dual Biography of Rommel and Montgomery Is Doubly Good
To quote William Faulkner, “The past is never dead—it is not even past.” Of no great event is that more true than of World War II, in the shattered debris of which, politically speaking, we are still living, and the history of which we are still trying to make sense. Hence the seemingly endless stream of books about the war, a flood of which we only see a small part in this country and Britain since most of us do not read books about it in French, German, Russian, or Japanese.
Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff: Reviewed
Some people are so famous that the legends about them and the cultural aftermath of their life altogether obscure the real human being. A few years ago, when I told a well-wisher, who had asked what my next book would be, that I was writing a biography of Lawrence of Arabia, she gushed, “Oh, I long to read a book about Peter O’Toole!” I am no better.
The Last Business Eccentric
DURING the increasingly remote years of the sixties and seven-ties, the corporate “conglomerate” held the same fascination as bell-bottoms, Nehru jackets, white go-go boots, and Petula Clark singing “Downtown.” These things bring back not so much nostalgia as a certain wonder that they ever held our attention; indeed, it is hard now to conjure up a time when the word “conglomerate” itself suggested to most people something new and threatening—a corporation whose only purpose was to maintain a...
The Third Man
Graham Greene was a complicated, acerbic, and contradictory man, with a wry sense of humor and a schoolboy's taste for pranks and practical jokes; he loved making a mystery of his life, and he kept the three different aspects of his identity—the writer, the public figure, and the private man—separate and distinct. So I was hardly surprised that the Graham Greene I knew seems to have eluded his two biographers, Norman Sherry and Michael Shelden. Greene died in 1991.
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