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    Alfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich, GCMG, DSO, PC (22 February 1890 – 1 January 1954), known as Duff Cooper, was a British Conservative Party politician...
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    killed in the First World War. She married one of the few survivors, Duff Cooper, later British ambassador to France. After his death, she wrote three...
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  • The Duff Cooper Prize (currently known as the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize) is a literary prize awarded annually for the best work of history, biography...
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  • September 1929. He was the son of the Conservative politician and diplomat Duff Cooper, later Viscount Norwich, and of Lady Diana Manners, a celebrated beauty...
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  • Old Men Forget is a 1953 autobiography by Duff Cooper, Viscount Norwich, detailing his Victorian childhood, Edwardian youth, and work in literature and...
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    book won the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize, making her the only author to ever win the Duff Cooper Prize twice. In November 2019, The Atlantic...
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  • in Operation Heartbreak, a 1950 novel by the former cabinet minister Duff Cooper, before one of the intelligence officers who planned and carried out...
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  • history of Australian art that took him to Port Arthur in Tasmania. 1987 Duff Cooper Prize. 1988 WH Smith Literary Award. The Fatal Shore was originally published...
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    politician, author and former ambassador to France, Sir Duff Cooper. He was the son of Sir Alfred Cooper and the husband of Lady Diana Manners. The second viscount...
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    Chamberlain as Secretary of State for War replacing the popular Alfred Duff Cooper, who later resigned from the government over Chamberlain's policy of...
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    Levita (née Cooper), daughter of Sir Alfred Cooper and Lady Agnes Duff (sister of Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife) was a sister of Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount...
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  • history of the Holodomor. The book won the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize. The book received a number of positive reviews from the mainstream...
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  • included Lady Diana Manners, then considered a famous beauty in England; Duff Cooper, who became a Conservative politician and a diplomat; Raymond Asquith...
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    Michael Andrew "Duff" McKagan (born February 5, 1964) is an American musician. He was the bassist of hard rock band Guns N' Roses for twelve years, with...
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    numerous awards and prizes, including the Wolfson Prize for History, the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, the Hemingway, the Kapuściński, the Arthur Ross Medal...
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    which he claimed were "carefully edited" by Haig's Official Biographer Duff Cooper. He described Haig as "intellectually and temperamentally unequal to...
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  • Gulag won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and the 2004 Duff Cooper Prize. It was also nominated for the National Book Critics Circle prize...
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    he has won literary prizes including the James Tait Black Award, the Duff Cooper Prize, the Heinemann Award and the Runciman Award, include studies of...
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    Retrieved March 24, 2011. Press, Orphans. "Past Winners of The Duff Cooper Prize". The Duff Cooper Prize. "National Book Critics Circle". Archived from the...
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    world." When the King met Duff Cooper, who resigned as First Lord of the Admiralty over the Munich Agreement, he told Cooper that he respected people who...
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    hospital in Bari (in the "heel" of Italy), he convalesced with Duff and Diana Cooper in Algiers. His father visited him in Algiers on his way to Italy—they...
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  • and Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth (1995). Sereny was awarded the Duff Cooper Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for her book on Albert...
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    future Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Secretary of State for War Duff Cooper, and future Prime Minister Anthony Eden. Appeasement was strongly supported...
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    David Cameron, TV presenter Adam Hart-Davis, and author and statesman Duff Cooper. William IV had a short but eventful reign. In Britain, the Reform Crisis...
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    royal family. Vaughan writes that some claim that Churchill instructed Duff Cooper, British ambassador to the French provisional government, to protect...
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    Palace on 24 October that year. Cooper became the third husband of Lady Agnes Cecil Emmeline Duff, daughter of Agnes Duff, Countess Fife, and was devoted...
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  • the humorist Beachcomber. He was well placed to secure Duff Cooper's life of Talleyrand, as Cooper was his uncle. As the junior partner at Cape, he had...
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  • 1987) was an English author, best known for The Peregrine, which won the Duff Cooper Prize in 1967. Baker was born on 6 August 1926, the only son of engineering...
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  • Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430–1950 was the Runciman Prize and Duff Cooper Prize winner and was shortlisted for the Hessell-Tiltman Prize. In addition...
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  • works, including award-winning biographies of Lord Curzon (winner of the Duff Cooper Prize) and Rudyard Kipling (winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for...
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