Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia - Softcover

Korda, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061712620 ISBN 13: 9780061712623

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2011

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.

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[ { By Korda, Michael ( Author ) HERO: THE LIFE AND LEGEND OF LAWRENCE OF ARABIA Nov-01-2011 Paperback } ]

Review:

"Korda's biography of Lawrence's life and legend conjure up a pathos and a very human side to the mystique of Lawrence of Arabia."--New York Journal of Books

"Few come closer to appraising the man in all his protean grandeur, and essential mystery, than Michael Korda. . . . One of the most compelling books I have read in a long time."--Sir Alistair Horne, CBE, author of A Savage War of Peace

"Lawrence of Arabia, one of the great heroes of any age, has found the right biographer in Michael Korda--a keen judge of the human condition and a master story teller who can separate myth from reality without diminishing the grandeur of his subject."--Evan Thomas, author of The War Lovers

"Hero is a portrait of Lawrence in all his complexity that is worth its 700-plus pages."--BookPage

"T.E. Lawrence is next to impossible to fix on the page. Yet Michael Korda has done so, delivering up a crowded, improbable life in a page-turning biography, every bit as rich as its protean subject. A splendid read."--Stacy Schiff, author of Cleopatra: A Life

"A splendid biography about a most unusual and extraordinary individual."--Hugh Thomas, author of The Spanish Civil War

"Michael Korda's magisterial and beautifully illustrated new book... is a stunningly good biography of one of the most famous, yet least understood heroes of the 20th century."--Sarasota Herald-Tribune

"[A] beguiling biography. . . . Korda is at his best describing, after the heroics in the desert, the touching antiheroics of Lawrence's later life."--New York Times Book Review

"An unexpectedly fresh, engagingly written biography that adds substantially to our understanding of this strange, contradictory, curiously admirable and compelling subject's life and contribution."--Los Angeles Times

"In case you thought there was nothing let to say about T.E. Lawrence . . . along comes Michael Korda with Hero brilliant, illuminating, un-putdownable, a masterpiece of biography about quite possibly the most fascinating and complex personality of the 20th century."--Christopher Buckley, author Losing Mum and Pup

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0061712620
• ISBN 13: 9780061712623
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 800