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The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was perhaps the most dramatic single event of the Cold War and a major turning point in history. Though it ended unsuccessfully, the spontaneous uprising of Hungarians against their country's Communist party and the Soviet occupation forces in the wake of Stalin's death demonstrated to the world at large the failure of Communism. In full view of the Western media--and therefore the world--the Russians were obli...

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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 portraits of the kind of people, rich or poor, Eastern or Western, famous or humble, whose lives continue to revolve around the horse. Korda is a terri...

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The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was perhaps the most dramatic single event of the Cold War and a major turning point in history. Though it ended unsuccessfully, the spontaneous uprising of Hungarians against their country's Communist party and the Soviet occupation forces in the wake of Stalin's death demonstrated to the world at large the failure of Communism. In full view of the Western media--and therefore the world--the Russians were obli...

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 portraits of the kind of people, rich or poor, Eastern or Western, famous or humble, whose lives continue to revolve around the horse. Korda is a terri...

Mythen ranken sich um die Quelle Thalheim in der Steiermark, doch eines ist gewiss: Das Wasser ist eine Heilquelle und eine geschichtsträchtige noch dazu. Dieses kleine Buch erzählt die Entwicklung des besonderen Ortes vom 15. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart - historisch und aufschlussreich, ergänzt um das ein oder andere sagenhafte Detail.

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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 America's greatest and most iconic hero. Korda paints a vivid and admiring portrait of Lee as a general and devoted family man who, though he disliked slavery and was not in favor of ...

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, 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 ...

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It was a warm April in Pleasant Valley when Margaret Korda, normally a fearless horsewoman, dropped her horsewhip while she was riding. Such a mild slip was easy to ignore, but when other troubling symptoms accumulated, she confided to her husband, "Michael, I think something serious is wrong with me." Within a few rapid weeks, the fiercely independent, former fashion model was diagnosed with brain cancer, while Michael, once reliant on her st...

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Ende der 50er-Jahre versucht Schauspielerin Jacqueline Susann (Bette Midler) auf verschiedensten Wegen im Entertainment-Business Fuß zu fassen. Doch das will nicht gelingen, auch nicht, als sie den erfolgreichen Promoter Irving Mansfield (Nathan Lane) heiratet. Irving überzeugt sie schließlich, ihren schwierigen Weg nach oben in einem Buch niederzuschreiben. Das wird der Durchbruch und ein unerwartet großer Erfolg. Doch gerade als sich ihre be...

In an absorbing work peopled with world leaders, generals and ordinary citizens who fought on both sides of the Second World War, Alone brings to resounding life perhaps the most critical year of twentieth-century history. May 1940 was a month like no other, as the German war machine blazed into France while the supposedly impregnable Maginot Line crumbled, and Winston Churchill replaced Neville Chamberlain as prime minister in an astonishing ...

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