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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 (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.
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, 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.
Alfred Duff Cooper, 1.° Visconde de Norwich (22 de fevereiro de 1890 - 1 de janeiro de 1954), foi um diplomata e escritor britânico. Foi secretário da Câmara dos Comuns do Reino Unido . [ 1 ]
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.
After his resignation in protest against the Munich agreement, Cooper spent his time fostering the idea of an Anglo-French alliance as the corner-stone of a European combination against Hitler's Germany.
