Instead of writing his memoirs, Hugh Trevor Roper - with his eyesight failing - decided to look back on his life with the help of, and in conversation with, Frank Johnson, editor of THE SPECTATOR. Publication of THE LAST DAYS OF HITLER in 1947 (based on research and interrogations in Berlin in 1945) turned the young historian Hugh Trevor Roper into a celebrity, and over the next forty years he was never far from the limelight of controversy: as one of the first historians on TV (along with AJP Taylor) whose views on current events were constantly sought; as a high profile Regius Professor of History at Oxford, appointed by Harold Macmillan, whose own successful campaign for Chancellor of Oxford Trevor Roper later ran; as a hate figure for Evelyn Waugh and other Catholics; as Master of Peterhouse College, Cambridge, famously at odds with a dominant clique of college fellows; and of course as the central figure in the Hitler Diaries fiasco. But his early life was no less fascinating, including his visits to Austria and Germany in the 1930s and his wartime work for MI5 at the very heart of Intelligence.
- ISBN10 0297842641
- ISBN13 9780297842644
- Publish Date 1 January 2010
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 7 July 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Edition New edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Language English