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David Eugene Henry Pryce-Jones ( 1936 -) is a Conservative British author and commentator. He was born in Vienna and his family fled to Britain from France in 1940.


CAREER


He was educated at Eton and read History at Magdalen College, Oxford , where he studied under A.J.P. Taylor . His relationship with Taylor was very antagonistic, with the two frequently getting into shouting matches.

He served as officer in the British Army of the Rhine. He has worked as a Journalist and author. He was Literary Editor at the '' Financial Times '' 1959-61, and '' The Spectator '' from 1961-63.

Pryce-Jones currently works as senior editor at '' National Review '' magazine. He also contributes to '' The New Criterion ''. Pryce-Jones often writes about the contemporary events and the history of the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and intelligence matters.

He married Clarissa Caccia in 1959. They have three children and he lives in London. His most recent book, ''Betrayal: France, the Arabs, and the Jews'' has accused the French government of being Anti-Semitic and pro-Arab, and of consistently siding against Israel in the hope of winning the favour of the Islamic world.


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Novels

  • ''Inheritance'' (1992)

  • ''The Afternoon Sun'' (1986)

  • ''Shirley’s Guild'' (1979)

  • ''The England Commune'' (1975)

  • ''Running Away'' (1971)

  • ''The Stranger’s View'' (1967)

  • ''Quondam'' (1965)

  • ''The Sands of Summer'' (1963)

  • ''Owls & Satyrs'' (1961)



Non-fiction

  • ''The War that Never Was'' (1995)

  • ''You Can’t be Too Careful'' (1992)

  • '''' (1989)

  • ''Cyril Connolly: Journal & Memoir'' (1983)

  • ''Paris in the Third Reich'' (1981)

  • ''Vienna'' (1978)

  • ''Unity Mitford'' (1976)

  • ''Evelyn Waugh & his world'' (1973)

  • ''The Face of Defeat'' (1972)

  • ''The Hungarian Revolution'' (1969)

  • ''Next Generation: Travels in Israel'' (1965)

  • ''Graham Greene'' (1963)

  • '' Muhammad's Monsters '' (2004)

  • ''Betrayal: France, the Arabs, and the Jews'' (2006)




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