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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 and diplomat who was also a military and political historian.
Alfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich, GCMG, DSO, PC (1890 – 1954) was a politician, diplomat, and author, whose courage in resigning from Cabinet over the Munich Agreement and consistency in working for closer diplomatic ties with France were complemented by his skill as a historian and his talent for friendship. Background and education.
10 de ene. de 2021 · From October 1939 to March 1940, Conservative member of parliament Alfred Duff Cooper and his wife Diana toured the United States. Their public appearances drew thousands of audience members and provoked the ire of isolationists, but the true importance of the Coopers’ tour lay in the conversations they undertook with prominent Americans.
- Bradley W Hart, Richard Carr
- 2021
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, political science or occasionally poetry, published in English or French.
YearAuthorTitleFrance on Trial: The Case of Marshal ...The Restless Republic: Britain without a ...Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of ...Alfred Duff Cooper (1890 – 1954) statesman, diplomat and author, won the DSO as a second lieutenant in the First World War, and entered Parliament in 1923. His life was devoted to politics until 1938 when, as First Lord of the Admiralty, he resigned in protest at the Munich Agreement.
30 de abr. de 2024 · Alfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich of Aldwick was a British politician. He served as a Conservative in Parliament (1924–29 and 1931–45). After a stint as secretary of state for war (1935–37), he became first lord of the Admiralty (1937) but resigned to protest the Munich agreement.
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.
