Hugh trevor roper biography of michael jackson

  • Published in US as Men and Events: Historical Essays, New York: Harper & Row, 1958.
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    Hugh Trevor-Roper The Secret World: Behind the Curtain of British Intelligence in World War II and the Cold War 9780755623686, 9780857724472

    Table of contents :
    Cover
    Title
    Copyright
    Contents
    List of Illustrations
    Editor’s Acknowledgements
    Foreword
    Abbreviations and Glossary
    Editor’s Preface
    Editor’s Introduction: Hugh Trevor-Roper’s Secret War
    1. Sideways into SIS
    2. Admiral Canaris
    3. The Philby Affair
    4. Deception
    5. Ultra
    6. Percy Sillitoe and Dick White
    7. Anthony Blunt
    8. Michael Straight
    9. Peter Wright
    10. Otto John and Reinhard Gehlen
    Appendix 1: Correspondence with Patrick Reilly
    Appendix 2: Charles Stuart on Kim Philby
    Editor’s Notes
    Bibliography
    Index

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    Hugh Trevor-Roper was the most brilliant historian of his generation. An expert in the history of early modern Britain and Nazi Germany, he was Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford University and latterly Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge. He rece

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    Hugh Trevor-Roper

    Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton, FBA (1914 - 2003), was an English historian of early modern Britain and Nazi Germany. He was Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford.

    Trevor-Roper's most widely read and financially rewarding book was titled The Last Days of Hitler(1947). It emerged from his assignment as a British intelligence officer in 1945 to discover what happened in the last days of Hitler's bunker. His reputation was "severely damaged" in 1983 when he authenticated the Hitler Diaries shortly before they were shown to be forgeries.…more

    [close] Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton, FBA (1914 - 2003), was an English historian of early modern Britain and Nazi Germany. He was Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford.

    Trevor-Roper's most widely read and financially rewarding book was titled The Last Days of Hitler (1947). It emerged from his assignment as a

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    Hugh Trevor-Roper: The Historian 1784531243, 9781784531249

    Table of contents :
    Contents
    Acknowledgements
    List of Contributors
    The Life
    The Writings
    Introduction • Blair Worden
    Part One: Seventeenth-Century Revolutions
    1 The ‘General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century’ • John Elliott
    2 The Puritan Revolution • Blair Worden
    3 Three Foreigners: The Philosophers of the Puritan Revolution • Mark Greengrass
    Part Two: Ideas and their Contexts, c.1500–1800
    4 Ecumenism and Erasmianism: The Wiles Lectures, 1975 • Noel Malcolm
    5 Intellectual History: ‘The Religious Origins of the Enlightenment’ • John Robertson
    6 The Politics of the Scottish Enlightenment • Colin Kidd
    Part Three: Hitler and his World
    7 Special Service in Germany and The Last Days of Hitler • E.D.R. Harrison
    8 ‘The Chap with the Closest Tabs’: Trevor-Roper and the Huntfor Hitler • Richard Overy
    9 Himmler’s Masseur • Gina Thomas
    Part Four: The Mind and the Style
    10 Trevor-Roper and Thomas Carlyle: History and Sensi

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