Virginia Cowles
Author · 15 books
(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.
Books
The Romanovs
1971
Stirling's Desert Raiders
1979
Love Goes to Press
1995
Gay Monarch
The Life and Pleasures of Edward VII
1956
The Rothschilds
1973
The Great Marlborough and his Duchess
1983
1913
The Defiant Swan Song
1967
Looking for Trouble
2022
The Kaiser
1960
The Great Swindle
A History of the South Sea Bubble
1960
The Russian Dagger
1969
The Phantom Major
1958
The Last Tsar and Tsarina
1979
Winston Churchill
2007
The Astors
1979
