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Duff Cooper. 4.25. 705 ratings92 reviews. Unique in his own age and a phenomenon in any, Charles-Maurice, Prince de Talleyrand, was a statesman of outstanding ability and extraordinary contradictions. He was a world-class rogue who held high office in five successive regimes. A well-known opportunist and a notorious bribe taker, Talleyrand's ...
14 de jul. de 2022 · Duff Cooper : the authorized biography by Charmley, John, 1955- author. Publication date 1997 Topics Cooper, Duff, Viscount Norwich, 1890-1954, Cooper, Duff, Statesmen -- Great Britain -- Biography, Hommes d'État -- Grande-Bretagne -- Biographies, Manners and customs, Politics and government, Statesmen, Biografie, Great Britain ...
If Duff Cooper's name has dimmed in the 50 years since his death, publication of these diaries will bring him to the fore once again. His family have long resisted publication - indeed Duff Cooper's nephew, the publisher Rupert Hart-Davis, was so shocked by the sexual revelations that he suggested to John Julius Norwich that it might be best for all concerned if they were burnt.
The long awaited and highly revealing diaries of the politician, diplomat, and socialite who married Lady Diana Cooper, Duff Cooper was a first-rate witness of just about every significant event from 1914 to 1950. His diary includes some magnificent set pieces—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 the ...
PAST WINNERS The Duff Cooper Prize was first awarded in 1956, to the historian and war-correspondent Alan Moorehead for Gallipoli, his now-classic account of the 1915-16 Dardanelles campaign. Winners since then have included works of social and political history, biography, memoir, travel-writing, literary criticism, nature-writing and poetry.
Alfred Duff Cooper, 1:e viscount Norwich, född 22 februari 1890 i London, död 1 januari 1954 till havs på norra Atlanten, var en brittisk politiker, diplomat och författare, far till John Julius Norwich . Efter studier på Eton och Cambridge antogs Cooper som aspirant av Foreign Office (brittiska UD) och inledde därmed en diplomatkarriär.
4th March 2024: The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize for the best non-fiction published in the UK is awarded to Julian Jackson for France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain (Allen Lane). The book, described by the judges as “asking profound, historical questions about how to act in impossible circumstances”, uses the 1945 trial of Marshal Pétain to explore collusion and its consequences in ...
