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Virginia Cowles


Born
in Brattleboro, Vermont, The United States
August 24, 1910

Died
September 17, 1983

Genre
Biography, Travel, Memoir


(Harriet) Virginia Spencer Cowles OBE was a noted American journalist, biographer, and travel writer. During her long career, Cowles went from covering fashion, to covering the Spanish Civil War, the turbulent period in Europe leading up to World War II, and the entire war. Her service as a correspondent was recognized by the British government with an Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1947. After the war, she published a number of critically acclaimed biographies of historical figures. In 1983, while traveling with her husband in France, she was killed in an automobile accident near Biarritz.

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Average rating: 3.94 · 6,501 ratings · 414 reviews · 30 distinct works • Similar authors
The Astors (Dynasties Book 1)
3.77 avg rating — 1,920 ratings — published 1979 — 13 editions
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The Rothschilds
3.79 avg rating — 1,246 ratings — published 1973 — 15 editions
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The Romanovs
3.78 avg rating — 873 ratings — published 1971 — 15 editions
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The Phantom Major
4.32 avg rating — 743 ratings — published 1958 — 61 editions
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Looking for Trouble
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Winston Churchill: The Era ...
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The Last Tsar and Tsarina (...
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Gay Monarch: The Life and P...
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1913: The Defiant Swan Song
3.66 avg rating — 198 ratings — published 1967 — 10 editions
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The Great Marlborough and h...
4.38 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 1983 — 6 editions
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“To-day, it is no exaggeration to claim that out of the eleven countries smashed and overrun by Germany, half of them were destroyed, not by tanks, but by propaganda.”
― Virginia Cowles, Looking for Trouble: 'One of the truly great war correspondents: magnificent.'
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“of Wales’ hosts at the ball given at New”
― Virginia Cowles, The Astors
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“Banking was still in such a rudimentary state that even bankers seemed to be baffled by it.”
― Virginia Cowles, The Rothschilds
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