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Hugh Trevor-Roper's life is a rich subject for a biography - with elements of Greek tragedy, comedy and moments of high farce. Clever, witty and sophisticated, Trevor-Roper was the most brilliant historian of his generation. Until his downfall, he seemed to have everything: wealth and connections, a chair at Oxford, a beautiful country house, an aristocratic wife, and, eventually, a title of his own. Eloquent and versatile, fearless and formidable, he moved easily between Oxford and London, between the dreaming spires of scholarship and the jostling corridors of power. He developed a lucid prose style which he used to deadly effect. He was notorious for his acerbic attacks on other historians, but ultimately tainted his own reputation with a catastrophic error when he authenticated the forged 'Hitler Diaries'. Adam Sisman sheds new light on this fascinating and dramatic episode, but also shows that there was much more to Hugh Trevor-Roper's career than the fiasco of the Hitler Diaries hoax that became his epitaph. From wartime code-breaking to grilling Nazis while the trail was still fresh in 1945 (and finding Hitler's will buried inside a bottle), to his wide-ranging interests, his snobbery and his malice, his formidable post-war feuds with Evelyn Waugh, Tawney, Toynbee, Taylor and many others, and his secret and passionate affair with an older, married woman. A study in both success and failure, Adam Sisman's biography is a revealing and personal story of a remarkable life.

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SECRET LIFE OF JOHN LE CARRÉ

'A fine and serious biography which, on page after page, has made me laugh out loud' Sunday Telegraph
'It is a long time since I have enjoyed a book as much as this one' Robert Harris, Sunday Times
'It is impossible to praise Sisman's biography too highly' A.N. Wilson, Observer

Clever, witty and cruel, Hugh Trevor-Roper was one of the most gifted scholars of his generation. As a young intelligence officer, he broke one of the German codes while taking a bath during an air raid. After the war, his solo investigation into the death of Hitler made him famous in his early thirties and rich enough to buy a Bentley. Ten years later he was appointed the most senior history professor at Oxford. He married into the aristocracy and was acknowledged as one of the most brilliant intellectuals of his time. But he failed to write the 'big book' expected of him and tainted his reputation when in old age he erroneously authenticated the forged 'Hitler Diaries'. The tragicomedy of his tenure as Master of Peterhouse forms a fitting finale to the story of a full and varied life.



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Adam Sisman is a writer, editor and biographer. He is the author of the acclaimed biographies of two historians often considered rivals - A.J.P. Taylor and Hugh Trevor-Roper. Among his most recent published works are the authorised biography of John Le Carré (2015), two volumes of letters by Patrick Leigh Fermor (2016 and 2018) and The Indefatigable Asa Briggs (2025).
Titel
Hugh Trevor-Roper
Untertitel
The Biography
Autor
Adam Sisman
EAN
9780297858560
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Orion
Herausgeber
Orion
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
1.76 MB
Anzahl Seiten
320
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