Talleyrand (Häftad)
avDuff Cooper
ISBN: 9780099541622 - UTGIVEN: 201012Talleyrand is a silver-tongued master diplomat, infamous turncoat, peacekeeper and libertine. Talleyrand held high office in five successive regimes from France's Ancient Regime, into the Revolution of 1789, Robespierre's Terror, Napoleon's epic wars, and on through restored kings to more revolution[...]
DUFF COOPER (Häftad)
avJohn Charmley
ISBN: 9780571250394 - UTGIVEN: 2009-03Politician, diplomat, scholar, lover, gambler and bon viveur, Duff Cooper lived life to the full. After winning the DSO in the First World War, he wooed and married the greatest beauty of the day, Lady Diana Manners. This is his biography.[...]
Old Men Forget (Häftad)
avDuff Cooper
ISBN: 9780571279586 - UTGIVEN: 2011-06During his twenty years in the House of Commons, Cooper held the offices of Financial Secretary to the War Office and Treasury, Secretary of State for War, First Lord of the Admiralty, Minister of Information, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and was the British Ambassador in Paris between 1944[...]
Operation Heartbreak/The Man Who Never Was (Häftad)
avEwen Montagu, Duff Cooper
ISBN: 9780752457758 - UTGIVEN: 201003In the early hours of 30 April 1943, a corpse, wearing the uniform of an officer in the Royal Marines, was slipped into the waters off the south-west coast of Spain. With it was a briefcase, in which were papers detailing an imminent Allied invasion of Greece. As the British had anticipated, the sup[...]
The Duff Cooper Diaries (Häftad)
avJohn Julius Norwich
ISBN: 9780753821053 - UTGIVEN: 200610Duff Cooper was a first-rate witness of just about every significant event from 1914 to 1950. His diary includes some magnificent set pieces - as a young soldier at the end of WWI, as a politician during the General Strike of 1926, as King Edward VIII's friend at the time of the Abdication, and from[...]
Talleyrand (Häftad)
avDuff Cooper
ISBN: 9780802137678 - UTGIVEN: 200101Unique in his own age and a phenomenon in any, Charles-Maurice, Prince de Talleyrand, was a statesman of outstanding ability and extraordinary contradictions. He was a world-class rogue who held high office in five successive regimes. A well-known opportunist and a notorious bribe taker, Talleyrand'[...]
