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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John Julius Norwich (redirect from John Julius Cooper, 2nd Viscount Norwich)
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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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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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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Old Men Forget (redirect from Old Men Forget: The Autobiography of Duff Cooper)
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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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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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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Family of David Cameron (redirect from Stephanie Cooper)
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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Viscount Norwich (redirect from Jason Cooper, 3rd Viscount Norwich)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Gulag won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and the 2004 Duff Cooper Prize. It was also nominated for the National Book Critics Circle prize...
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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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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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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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Archived from the original on 2 October 2017. Retrieved 9 June 2014. Sarah Cooper (2 August 2011). "Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Camilla Rutherford star in Dimensions"...
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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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Samuel Johnson Prize, winner 2014 Costa Book of the Year, winner. 2014 Duff Cooper Prize, shortlist. 2015 Thwaites Wainwright Prize, longlist. 2015 Andrew...
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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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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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Award 1968 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize 1975 E. M. Forster Award 1975 Duff Cooper Prize for North 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature 1996 Commandeur de l'Ordre...
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