Duff Cooper Prize Winners

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Winners

	The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe by Mark Mazower 4.24 avg rating — 410 ratings Duff Cooper Prize (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe by Judith Herrin 3.91 avg rating — 544 ratings Duff Cooper Prize (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths by John Barton 4.08 avg rating — 1,230 ratings Duff Cooper Prize (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	de Gaulle by Julian T. Jackson 3.99 avg rating — 112 ratings Duff Cooper Prize (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933 by Anne Applebaum 4.39 avg rating — 6,526 ratings Duff Cooper Prize (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Meetings with remarkable manuscripts (Hardback) /anglais by DE HAMEL CHRISTOPHE 4.43 avg rating — 1,295 ratings Duff Cooper Prize (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Schubert's Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession by Ian Bostridge 4.24 avg rating — 522 ratings Duff Cooper Prize (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Other People's Countries: A Journey into Memory by Patrick McGuinness 4.08 avg rating — 148 ratings Duff Cooper Prize (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gabriele D'Annunzio: Poet, Seducer, and Preacher of War by Lucy Hughes-Hallett (Goodreads Author) 4.11 avg rating — 571 ratings Duff Cooper Prize (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Strindberg: A Life by Sue Prideaux 4.07 avg rating — 55 ratings Duff Cooper Prize (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9,438 ratings Duff Cooper Prize (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst 3.91 avg rating — 159 ratings Duff Cooper Prize (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trotsky: A Biography by Robert Service 3.76 avg rating — 825 ratings Duff Cooper Prize (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird (Goodreads Author) 4.11 avg rating — 17,810 ratings Duff Cooper Prize (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War by Graham Robb really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,333 ratings Duff Cooper Prize (2007)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 by William Dalrymple 4.17 avg rating — 7,627 ratings Duff Cooper Prize (2006)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750 - 1850 by Maya Jasanoff 3.83 avg rating — 165 ratings Duff Cooper Prize (2005)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950 by Mark Mazower 4.31 avg rating — 1,280 ratings Duff Cooper Prize (2004)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum 4.27 avg rating — 10,870 ratings Duff Cooper Prize (2003)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Architect and his Wife: Biography of an Architect by Jane Ridley 3.71 avg rating — 17 ratings Duff Cooper Prize (2002)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan 4.11 avg rating — 13,196 ratings Duff Cooper Prize (2001)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Freedom, 1937-1946 by Robert Skidelsky 4.28 avg rating — 57 ratings Duff Cooper Prize (2000)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild 4.15 avg rating — 55,624 ratings Duff Cooper Prize (1999)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834 by Richard Holmes 4.50 avg rating — 215 ratings Duff Cooper Prize (1998)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Frozen Desire: The Meaning of Money by James Buchan 3.73 avg rating — 77 ratings Duff Cooper Prize (1997)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thomas Cranmer by Diarmaid MacCulloch 4.37 avg rating — 262 ratings Duff Cooper Prize (1996)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth by Gitta Sereny 4.30 avg rating — 1,845 ratings Duff Cooper Prize (1995)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Curzon: Imperial Statesman by David Gilmour 4.14 avg rating — 66 ratings Duff Cooper Prize (1994)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A History of Warfare by John Keegan 3.98 avg rating — 4,055 ratings Duff Cooper Prize (1993)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Never Again: Britain 1945 To 1951 by Peter Hennessy really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 76 ratings Duff Cooper Prize (1992)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars