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.
En 1950 apareció la incisiva novelaOperación Desengaño, deDuff Cooper, una narración novelada, que el gobierno intentó retirar. Su publicación llevó a los servicios de inteligencia a apremiar a Ewen Montagu , el cerebro de la operación, para que escribiera el relato verdadero, El hombre que nunca existió .
She married one of the few survivors, Duff Cooper, later British ambassador to France. After his death, she wrote three volumes of memoirs which reveal much about early 20th-century upper-class life.
Cooper, Duff (1890-1954); Montagu, Ewen (1901-1985); ]. Las dos caras de una operación de inteligencia que, aunque oficialmente secreta, se hizo pronto legendaria y se convirtió en el engaño más decisivo de todos los tiempos.En la madrugada del 30 de abril de 1943, un cadáver con el ...
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 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 ...
Duff Cooper fell in love with France during his first visit to Paris in 1900 and he remained faithful to her for the rest of his life. The fact that Paris in 1900 was deeply Anglophobic, because of the Boer war, had no effect upon Cooper's feelings for the city. His affection for France was no fair-weather plant.