Hugh Trevor-Roper: The Wartime Journals

Hugh Trevor-Roper. Edited by Richard Davenport-Hines

ISBN 10: 1848859902 / ISBN 13: 9781848859906

Published by I.B.Tauris, 2012

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Signed by Author(s) A fine book in a fine DW. This is a first edition/first impression; signed by the editor to the titlepage. Signed simply, "Richard Davenpot-Hines".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hugh Trevor-Roper: The Wartime Journals
• Publisher: I.B.Tauris
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848859902
• ISBN 13: 9781848859906
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Weight: 23 ounces
• Signed: ISigned by Author(s)

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Synopsis

As a British Intelligence Officer during World War II, Hugh Trevor-Roper was expressly forbidden from keeping a diary due to the sensitive and confidential nature of his work. However, he confided a record of his thoughts in a series of slender notebooks inscribed OHMS (On His Majesty's Service). The Wartime Journals reveal the voice and experiences of Trevor-Roper, a war-time ""backroom boy"" who spent most of the war engaged in highly-confidential intelligence work in England - including breaking the cipher code of the German secret service, the Abwehr. He became an expert in German resistance plots and after the war, interrogated many of Hitler's immediate circle, investigated Hitler's death in the Berlin bunker, and personally retrieved Hitler's will from its secret hiding place. The posthumous discovery of Trevor-Roper's secret journals - unknown even to his family and closest confidants - is an exciting archival find and provides an unusual and privileged view of the Allied war effort against Nazi Germany. At the same time, they offer an engaging - sometimes mischievous - and reflective study of both the human comedy and personal tragedy of wartime.

About the Authors

Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914-2003) was Regius Professor of History at the University of Oxford, UK for over twenty years, a member of the House of Lords from 1979 and Master of Peterhouse College, University of Cambridge, UK 1980-87. His historical interests included England during the 17th century civil wars, the history of ideas during the Renaissance and Enlightenment, 20th-century espionage and treason, and Hitler's Germany. Trevor-Roper was a senior wartime Intelligence officer, and retained his links with the security services until the 1970s. He also travelled widely overseas as a highly regarded special correspondent for the Sunday Times.

Richard Davenport-Hines has edited or co-edited three previous volumes of Hugh Trevor-Roper's letters and journals. His most recent book is a study of communist espionage, the Security Service and the Cambridge spies, Enemies Within (2018). He is a Former Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford, UK.