Books
by Michael Korda
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Charmed Lives - A Family Romance |
This biography of film director Sir Alexander Korda goes some way to explain how three wartime refugee brothers from Hungary could become the personification of post-war British film-making. What it does best is to look at the brothers' family dynamics - it was less successful in invoking the political background to British film making of the time. Even so it's an engaging read, even if the claims of 'a cast of thousands' was typically oversold...
(Clive Yelf - bwl 19 June 2003) |
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Ike: An American Hero |
Written by the filmmaker's son, this is a vibrant and compulsively readable biography of General Eisenhower who later became USA President. Unusually objective, Korda cites details and viewpoints from both the Allied and German sides. Giving his subject the benefit of the doubt, as good biographers do, he provides a detailed assessment of the pressures involved in such an epic enterprise as D-day, with fascinating thumbnail sketches of those involved. Strongly recommended for history and political buffs.
(Kathie Somerwil Ayrton - bwl 57 Summer 2010) |
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