Somerset De Chair (1911–1995)
Autore di Napoleon On Napoleon
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- DeChair, Somerset Struben
- Data di nascita
- 1911-08-22
- Data di morte
- 1995-01-05
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Chilham Castle, Kent, England
Blickling Hall, Norfolk, England
St. Osyth's Priory, Essex, England
Bourne Park, Kent, England - Istruzione
- Oxford University (Balliol College)
- Attività lavorative
- novelist
politician
Member of Parliament
poet
writer - Relazioni
- De Chair, Helena (daughter)
Rees-Mogg, Jacob (son-in-law)
Sir Dudley Rawson Stratford de Chair (father) - Breve biografia
- From Wikipedia: Somerset de Chair was Conservative MP for South West Norfolk and then for Paddington South. He was a Parliamentary Private Secretary from 1942 to 1944.
He wrote nonfiction, a number of now largely forgotten novels, one play, three collections of poetry, as well as a number of works of autobiography.
He was known for his extravagant taste and lived in a series of large country houses. He was married four times, lastly to Lady Juliet Wentworth-Fitzwilliam.
Utenti
Recensioni
Napoleon on Napoleon: An Autobiography of the Emperor di Napoleon
I have this book because I love Napoleonic history, not because I regard Napoleon as particularly insightful on the subject of himself. What he was good at was finding other people's military weaknesses.
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- 24
- Utenti
- 126
- Popolarità
- #159,216
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 16
- Lingue
- 2