Hugh Trevor-Roper, and the Feud with Evelyn Waugh
Clever, witty and sophisticated, Hugh Trevor-Roper was the most brilliant historian of his generation. Until his downfall, he seemed to have everything: wealth and connections, a chair at Oxford, an aristocratic wife, and, eventually, a title of his own.
He developed a lucid prose style which he used to deadly effect. He was notorious for his acerbic attacks on other historians. But ultimately he destroyed his own reputation with a catastrophic error when he authenticated the forged “Hitler Diaries”.
Award-wining biographer Adam Sisman reveals that there was much more to Trevor-Roper's career than the Diaries fiasco that became his epitaph. From wartime code-breaking to grilling Nazis when the trail was still fresh in 1945, to his snobbery, his malice and his formidable post-war feud with Evelyn Waugh.
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