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Hugh Trevor-Roper : the biography by Sisman, Adam is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Hugh Trevor-Roper : the biography about?
Hugh TrevorRoper's life is a rich subject for a biography with elements of Greek tragedy, comedy, and moments of high farce. Clever, witty, and sophisticated, TrevorRoper 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 TrevorRoper's career than the fiasco of the Hitler Diaries hoax that became his epitaph. From wartime codebreaking to grilling Nazis while the trail was still fresh in 1945 (and finding Hitler's will buried inside a bottle), to his wideranging interests, his sno
Who reads Hugh Trevor-Roper : the biography?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Sisman, Adam
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson; Orion Publishing Group, Limited
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780297852148
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Memoir, Fiction, History
- Rating
- 4.08 / 5 (30 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14