Michael korda author (9 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good-. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good-. First Edition; First Printing. Minor stain on top of book. Minor staining and wear to back of dust jacket. Illustrated by The Author (ilustrador).

Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. Standard used condition. Reading copy or better. Used Book.

Softcover. Condición: Very Good. Advance Reader's Copy; First Printing. Illustrated by The Author (ilustrador).

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. 1st Edition. Black boards with white spine and gilt lettering on spine. Binding is tight. Spine is rounded. Corners are sharp.Dust jacket is in mint condition. No markings. No shelf wear. Frontispiece: B/W Portrait of General Robert E. Lee. Includes: Contents, Notes, Bibliography, Maps, Index. Eight-page color photographs after page 244; Sixteen-pages black/white photographs after page 500. 785 p. 6.02 x 9.04 x 2 inches. 2.55 lbs.…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. No Dustjacket. Later Edition. ISBN 0425031950. Mass market paperback . Second printing. Very Good to Near Fine condition. Tight bright attractive copy with no markings to the book. Collectors grade condition with flat spine and no creasing to the covers. No Signature.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. First. pp.303 clean tight copy with some creases to top spine of d/j and abrasion to top right front corner Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Author (ilustrador).

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine unread condition black boards with gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Michael Korda; Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quotes by Winston Churchill, et al; Acknowledgments; Bibliography; Notes; Index and Image Credits. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographic plates and a section of color photographic plates. "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. Korda re-creates the intensity of combat in "the long, delirious, burning blue" of the sky above southern England, and at the same time - perhaps for the first time - traces the entire complex web of political, diplomatic, scientific, industrial, and human decisions during the 1930s that led inexorably to the world's first, greatest, and most decisive air battle. Korda deftly interweaves the critical strands of the story - the invention of radar (the most important of Britain's military secrets); the developments by such visionary aircraft designers as R.J. Mitchell, Sidney Camm, and Willy Messerschmitt of the revolutionary, all-metal, high-speed monoplane fighters the British Spitfire and Hurricane and the German Bf 109; the rise of the theory of air bombing as the decisive weapon of modern warfare and the prevailing belief that "the bomber will always get through" (in the worlds of British prime minister Stanley Baldwin). As Nazi Germany rearmed swiftly after 1933, building up its bomber force, only one man, the central figure of Korda's book, Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding, the eccentric, infuriating, obstinate, difficult, and astonishingly foresighted creator and leader of RAF Figher Command, did not believe that the bomber would always get through and was determined to provide Britain with a weapon few people wanted to believe was needed or even possible. Dowding persevered - despite opposition, shortage of funding, and bureaucratic infighting - to perfect the British fighter force just in time to meet and defeat the German onslaught. Korda brings to life the extraordinary men and women on both sides of the conflict, from such major historical figures as Winston Churchill, Neville Chamberlain, and Reichsmarschall Herman Goring (and his disputatious and bitterly feuding generals) to the British and German pilots, the American airmen who joined the RAF just in time for the Battle of Britain, the young airwomen of the RAF, the ground crews who refueld and rearmed the fighters in the middle of heavy German raids, and such heroic figures as Douglas Bader, Josef Frantisek, and the Lufwaffe aces Adolf Galland and his archrival Werner Molders. Winston Churchill memorably said about the Battle of Britain, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." Here is the story of "the few," and how they prevailed against the odds, deprived Hitler of victory, and saved the world during three epic months in 1940." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Taylor, Jarrod (jacket design; Lonninge, Lars (author photograph); Hill, Amy (book design) (ilustrador).…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine condition black boards with silver front cover and spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped photographic and color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Michael Korda; Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quotes; List of Illustrations; List of Maps; Author's Note; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography and Index. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and maps. Upper board tips are somewhat bumped; the volume and dust jacket are otherwise in as new condition (see photographs). "In this first major single-volume biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower to appear in many years, Michael Korda, the author of Ulysses S. Grant, paints a fresh, frank, revealing, and admiring full-length portrait of America's greatest soldier - and one of its best presidents. This is not the smiling, amiable Ike of legend but the real man: a daring, gifted, courageous, superlatively trained, and tough-minded soldier, a perfectionist with a hair trigger temper (mostly held under precarious control) who was perhaps the most successful leader of a multinational coalition in all history. Ike waged war in some of our darkest hours and brought the Allied nations to a triumphant victory. He went on to become president of Columbia University, the first commander of NATO, and later a wise, wildly popular two-term president who "waged peace" at the height of the Cold War. Ike is more than a much-needed and compellingly readable biography: in the tradition of Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August and Doris Kearns Goodwin's No Ordinary Time, it is narrative history on an epic scale, and trenchantly demonstrates Ike's role in the great events and with the major historical fugures of the twentieth century. Korda confronts squarely such difficult, controversial issues as Ike's relationship with his wartime aide and driver, Kay Summersby; and his struggles with his most infuriating subordinate and rival, Bernard Montgomery, who clashed with Ike over strategy from 1943 to the end of the war (and long afterward) and cuttingly dismissed him as, "Nice chap. No soldier." He discusses Ike's dispute with the "bomber barons" of the USAAF and the RAF, which forced him to threaten to resign his command and go home if he didn't have control of their heavy bombers before D-day. Further, he addresses Ike's determination to win the war in Europe with his own strategy; the reasons for his firm decision not to take Berlin or Prague before the Russians; the story of his by no means inevitable rise to the presidency; and the many crises he confronted as president, from McCarthyism to the perils of nuclear war. Within the context of history and against the backdrop of two world wars and the Cold War, Ike's life and career are central to understanding America's involvement with global affairs in the postwar era. As the boy reared in Kansas rose to become a military hero, a n international statesman, and president of the world's most powerful nation, he always remained a man whose basic values were those of his youth: honesty, courage, and basic human decency." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Lonninge, Lars (author photograph); Minor, Wendell (jacket design) (ilustrador).…

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Long 12mo, 240 pages. In Near Fine condition with Near Fine dust jacket. Spine is maroon with white and orange lettering. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering, price uncut: "$24.95" on front flap. Signed flat and dated "4.23.12" by Barry Singer. Shelved in hallway. 1389728. Special Collections.…