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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.
10 de jan. de 2021 · Duff Cooper’s own memoirs discuss the trip in just sixteen pages of a total of 384, and even then this was interspersed with the other events of late 1939. 8 Unfortunately for researchers, his published diaries also skip the period entirely. 9 Perhaps partly because of this, John Charmley’s 1986 biography of Duff Cooper mentions the trip only in passing, affording four pages to the affair ...
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, Cooper was ...
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 has 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 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.
