The Washington Times, February 21, 2012
Adam Sisman, “An Honourable Englishman: The Life of Hugh Trevor-Roper.” New York: Random House. $40. 643pp. Illustrated.
Review by Martin Rubin
“Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914-2003) was one of the most famous and admired British historians of his time, holder of Oxford University’s prestigious Regius Professorship. He was also widely known for his best-selling ‘Last Days of Hitler,’ based on fresh research gathered soon after the Fuhrer’s suicide, and for his many forays in newspapers and journals in his role as public intellectual on the historical and political controversies of his day. . . .
“There is no doubt that Trevor-Roper was in many ways a contradictory character. A devotee of foxhunting, he married the daughter of an earl and duchesses seem more prominent in his social life than historians. . . . Yet when an academic clique at one of Cambridge’s more eccentric colleges [Peterhouse] lured him away from a lifetime at Oxford to become its head, they found, to their consternation, that his views on such controversies as admitting women were surprisingly progressive.”
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