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Journey to a Revolution: A Personal Memoir and History of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 by Michael Korda
Category: Biography & Memoir
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was not just an extraordinary and dramatic event--perhaps the most dramatic single event of the Cold War--but, as we can now see fifty years later, a major turning point in history. Here is an eyewitness account, in the tradition of George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia. ...Show more
Ulysses S. Grant: The Unlikely Hero by Michael Korda
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Eminent Lives Ser.
One of the first two volumes in Harper's Eminent Lives series, Korda brings his acclaimed storytelling talents to the life of Ulysses S. Grant - a man who managed to end the Civil War on a note of grace, serve two terms as president, write one of the most successful military memoirs in American literatu ...Show more
Ulysses S. Grant: The Unlikely Hero by Michael Korda
Category: Biography
Ulysses S. Grant was the first officer since George Washington to become a four-star general in the United States Army, and the only president in nearly a century - between Andrew Jackson in 1929 and Woodrow Wilson in 1913 - to serve eight consecutive years in the White House. Revered for his skill and ...Show more