An edition of An Honourable Englishman (2011)

An Honourable Englishman

the life of Hugh Trevor-Roper

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An edition of An Honourable Englishman (2011)

An Honourable Englishman

the life of Hugh Trevor-Roper

He was one of the most gifted scholars of his generation -- a brilliant writer, high-society star, and cultural force who moved easily between aristocratic houses and the humble haunts of literary bohemia. He developed a lucid prose style that he used to scathing effect, earning notoriety for his sharp attacks on other historians. Now this superb biography of Hugh Trevor-Roper, universally acclaimed overseas, makes its anticipated American debut. With incisive knowledge of the man and access to never-before-published letters, Adam Sisman paints a fascinating portrait of this charismatic, contentious, contradictory character. Sisman examines Trevor-Roper's middle-class upbringing in a house so empty of affection that it caused, as he put it, his "almost physical difficulty in expressing emotion." He traces Trevor-Roper's career from his early academic triumphs to his later failure to produce the big book expected of him. Sisman also provides riveting new details of the high drama of Trevor-Roper's World War II intelligence work -- in which he boldly blew the whistle on bureaucratic infighting that imperiled British code-breaking -- and the exclusive investigation of Hitler's death that inspired his bestselling postwar triumph, The Last Days of Hitler. As never before, Trevor-Roper's personal life is explored, including his passionate affair with an older, married woman. Finally, An Honourable Englishman reveals the truth behind his public substantiation of the false Hitler diaries in 1983, a misstep (encouraged by his impatient employer Rupert Murdoch) that forever tainted his reputation. Profoundly bright and brutally acerbic, Hugh Trevor-Roper was a literary lion like no other, and in An Honourable Englishman he receives the absorbing biography he deserves. - Publisher.

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Random House
Language
English

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2011, Random House
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Table of Contents

Boy
Carthusian
Undergraduate
Researcher
Cadet
Soldier
Major
Major
Sleuth
Student
Traveler
Historian
Destroyer
Lover
Husband
Professor
Scholar
Controversialist
Essayist
Ghostwriter
Spy
Lord
Master
Expert
Stoic
Books by Hugh Trevor-Roper

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Published in
New York

Classifications

Library of Congress
D15.T67 S57 2011

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xxiii, 643 p., [24] p. of plates
Dimensions
24 x x centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25155475M
ISBN 10
1400069769
ISBN 13
9781400069767
LCCN
2011275334
OCLC/WorldCat
707968439

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