David Eugene Henry Pryce-Jones FRSL (born 15 February 1936) is a British conservative author, historian and political commentator.
[11] In 1940, a four-year-old Pryce-Jones was stranded with his nanny in Dieppe, Normandy and was rescued from the invading German army by his mother's brother-in-law Eduardo Propper de Callejón.
[citation needed] Pryce-Jones did his National Service in the Coldstream Guards, in which he was commissioned in 1955, promoted lieutenant in 1956, and served in the British Army of the Rhine.
[citation needed] In his 1989 book The Closed Circle, Pryce-Jones examined what he considered to be the reasons for the backward state of the Arab world.
[15] In his book, Betrayal: France, the Arabs, and the Jews, he 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.
[18] The American diplomat Philip H. Gordon gave a highly unfavorable review of Betrayal in Foreign Affairs, describing the book as a French-bashing "polemic" disguised as a work of history.
It was rather notorious for digging up conflict among the married Mitford siblings, with Pamela accusing Jessica of revealing private correspondence concerning their sister the Duchess of Devonshire.