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Michael Korda

English Novelist

Born: Oct 8, 1933

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Related authors: Aldous Huxley Charles Dickens E. M. Forster J. R. R. Tolkien Thomas Hardy William Golding William Makepeace Thackeray

Peter Fleming was a famous English traveler, explorer and adventurer, whose non-fiction books were hugely successful. My father owned signed copies of all of them - he and Peter Fleming had become acquainted over some detail of set design at the Korda film studio in Shepperton - and I had read each of them with breathless adolescent excitement. Michael Korda

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For a brief moment, Ian Fleming made being an Englishman seem sexy, even to the French. He should have been awarded a knighthood, even possibly the Garter. Michael Korda

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Those of us who have not had the experience of being invaded by the Germans are in no position to criticize those who accommodated themselves to German occupation, with its ferocious punishments for those who expressed even the mildest opposition. Michael Korda

Experience Those Punishments Criticize Invaded Had Occupation Opposition Ferocious German Germans Being Themselves Us Who Even Expressed Position

'Il faut vivre' might almost be the French national motto from 1940 to June 1944, but who is to say ours would have been any different if the Germans had paraded victoriously through London and Generalfeldmarschall Von Runstedt made his headquarters at Claridge's? Michael Korda

It is curious that the two best-known British historians in the United States are Andrew Roberts and Niall Ferguson, each of whom represents, in fact, a different school of serious historical writing, and both of whom seem to have gained for themselves, perhaps without intending to, a special reputation on the American right. Michael Korda

Writing School Reputation States Andrew Seem Both Fact Perhaps Roberts Without Ferguson Historians Historical Curious American Intending Represents Different In Fact Gained Themselves Special Each Serious Whom United United States Right Two British

Some people are so famous that the legends about them and the cultural aftermath of their life altogether obscure the real human being. Michael Korda

Life People Human Being Some People Some About Obscure Altogether Real Cultural Real Human Legends Human Being Famous Aftermath Them

In 1918, Germany suffered the ghastly consequences of defeat; France suffered those of victory, the price of which was to divide and embitter French politics and culture and lead to its defeat in 1940. Michael Korda

Politics Culture Victory Defeat Consequences France Ghastly Those Divide Price Lead French Germany Which Suffered

If your family was part of the movie business, then watching 'Moguls & Movie Stars' is like looking at the family photo album: hilarious to members of the family, numbingly boring to those outside the family circle. Michael Korda

My father and his brothers never mentioned to their English wives and children that they were Jewish. Being Hungarian was exotic and foreign enough to begin with, and so long as they were not asked, they found it easier, from 1919 on, to let the matter drop. Michael Korda

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