Hero, Michael Korda
Hero, Michael Korda
List: $27.99 | Sale: $19.59
Club: $13.99

Hero
The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia

Author: Michael Korda

Narrator: Robin Sachs

Abridged: 14 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 11/16/2010


Synopsis

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.

About Michael Korda

Michael Korda is the author of Ulysses S. Grant, Ike, Hero, and Charmed Lives. Educated at Le Rosey in Switzerland and at Magdalen College, Oxford, he served in the Royal Air Force. He took part in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and on its fiftieth anniversary was awarded the Order of Merit of the People's Republic of Hungary. He and his wife, Margaret, make their home in Dutchess County, New York.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mara on September 11, 2014

National hero though he may be, it turns out it wasn’t all that easy being Ulysses S. Grant. Michael Korda’s brief biography captures the ups and downs of Grant the man, the general and the president in enjoyable and pithy prose. Young Ulysses was quite the animal lover. He had a knack for “horse wh......more

Goodreads review by Al on November 01, 2018

There are quite a few Grant biographies available. Ron Chernow's is likely to be the most pre-eminent, but William McFeely's Grant:A Biography and Ronald White's American Ulysses are also rather well-known among many others and the man wrote a memoir his self, so there's plenty of places to go. I hav......more

Goodreads review by Karen on January 13, 2022

I borrowed this book from the library at the same time I borrowed Chernow's version of Grant's biography. Both looked very readable at a glance. I read part of the chapter about Grant's childhood in both books, as well as a couple of other Grant biographies. The only two that agreed with another wer......more

Goodreads review by Erik on August 09, 2022

Entertaining, short narrative version of Grant's life, describing most of the usual highlights plus some new stories and interpretations. I'm not sure that it's as accurate as bigger tomes by Grant biographers like Brooks Simpson, Joan Waugh or Ron Chernow, but it's a much quicker read.......more

Goodreads review by Abbie on December 12, 2023

I think this guy talked about other generals almost as much as he talked about Grant, and talked about battle tactics much more than he talked about Grant’s life and character......more