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OUR STORY. The Duff Cooper Prize was founded in memory of Alfred Duff Cooper by his friends, who wished to honour his love of books. Duff, though best known as a politician and diplomat, was also a successful writer of history, poetry and biography. As he declared in his autobiography, Old Men Forget: ‘Buying books has always been my weakness ...
Alfred Duff Cooper, 1. Viscount Norwich, GCMG, DSO, PC (* 22. Februar 1890 in London; † 1. Januar 1954 bei Vigo ), war ein britischer Politiker, Diplomat und Autor. Nach ihm wurde der Duff-Cooper-Preis, ein bedeutender britischer Literaturpreis, benannt.
1 de ene. de 2005 · Duff Cooper, John Julius Norwich (editor) 3.95. 170 ratings22 reviews. A witness to numerous significant events from 1914 to 1950, the life of Duff Cooper is explored in full in this collection of diaries. From life as a young soldier at the end of World War I, as a politician during the General Strike of 1926, as King Edward VIII's friend at ...
Duff Cooper. Duff Cooper was born on 22nd February, 1890. After being educated at Eton and New College, Oxford, he joined the Foreign Office. During the First World War Cooper joined the British Army and as a Second Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards, was sent to the Western Front in France in April 1917. A member of the Conservative Party ...
Biographical / Historical. (Alfred) Duff Cooper was born in February 1890, the son of Sir Alfred Cooper and Lady Agnes Cecil Emmeline Flower. He was educated at Eton College and New College, Oxford. In October 1913 he joined the Foreign Office but was released in June 1917 to join the army as a Subaltern in the Grenadier Guards.
The long-awaited diaries of Duff Cooper; statesman, soldier, Member of Parliament, wit, poet, diplomat, clubman and scholar; which were very nearly destroyed by his nephew, who was shocked at their frankness. Duff Cooper was a first-rate witness of, and often a first-hand participant in, just about every significant political development that occurred between 1914 and his death forty years ...
16 de jun. de 2011 · Old Men Forget. Politician, poet and diplomat, Lord Norwich - better known as Duff Cooper - compiled his autobiography with the aid of his detailed and frank diaries. The many entries he quotes in these pages lend immediacy and humour to some of the most important events for twentieth-century Britain. During his twenty years in the House of ...
