Old Men Forget
Politician, poet and diplomat, Lord Norwich - better known as Duff Cooper - compiled his autobiography with the aid of his detailed and frank diaries. The many entries he quotes in these pages lend immediacy and humour to some of the most important events for twentieth-century Britain. During 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 (famously resigning in protest at Chamberlain's disastrous Munich Agreement with Hitler, and only returning to government after Churchill became Prime Minister), Minister of Infor…
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- ISBN: 978-0-571-27975-3
- EAN: 9780571279753
- Produktnummer: 13892821
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 400 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 566 KB
- Auflage: Main
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