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Hugh Trevor-Roper was perhaps the most brilliant historian of his generation. An expert in the history of both early modern Britain and Nazi Germany, he was Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford University and latterly Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge. He received a life peerage in 1979. During the Second World War, Trevor- Roper served in the Secret Intelligence Service and this book contains his journals written during the war and in its immediate aftermath, including the period in Berlin during which he undertook detailed enquiries into the circumstances of Hitler’s death under commission from the SIS. It was these investigations that formed the basis for one of his most best-known books: The Last Days of Hitler. Richard Davenport-Hines is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Literature and a past winner of the Wolfson Prize for History. He is the author of many books, including A Night at the Majestic (2006) and The Pursuit of Oblivion (2001). He edited Hugh Trevor-Roper’s Letters from Oxford (2006) and is a regular reviewer for the Spectator, Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Times, Literary Review and other publications. HUGH TREVOR-ROPER THE WARTIME JOURNALS EDITED BY RICHARD DAVENPORT-HINES Published in 2012 by I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd 6 Salem Road, London W2 4BU 175 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10010 www.ibtauris.com Distributed in the United States and Canada Exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan 175 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10010 Copyright main text © 2012 The Literary Estate of Lord Dacre of Glanton Copyright introduction, notes, references © 2012 Richard Davenport-Hines The right of Hugh Trevor-Roper to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by The Literary Estate of Lord Dacre of Glanton in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patent Act 1988. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or any part thereof, may not be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. ISBN: 978 1 84885 990 6 A full CIP record for this book is available from the British Library A full CIP record is available from the Library of Congress Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: available Printed and bound in Sweden by ScandBook AB Contents Editorial Acknowledgments vii Glossary of Names and Initials ix List of Illustrations xi Introduction 1 1940–41 24 1942 55 1943 126 1944 194 1945 211 1946 274 1947 285 Index 301 Editorial Acknowledgments My chief debt is to Professor Blair Worden, literary executor of Lord Dacre of Glanton, for entrusting the editing of these journals to me. His advice during the editorial process has been a model of delicacy, good sense and gaiety. Judith Curthoys, archivist of Christ Church, has been indispensable and forbearing during the preparation of this manuscript for publication. Discussions with Adam Sisman, during his research of his biography Hugh Trevor-Roper, informed my editorial work: his comments, and those of Alan Bell, on a draft of the editorial introduction were helpful. Simon Malloch of Nottingham University read the main text, encouraged me by his enthusiasm, caught several mistranscriptions, corrected a scattering of errors and made other discreet suggestions – for all of which patient kindness I am grateful. He introduced me to Professor Michael Reeve, of Pembroke College, Cambridge, who has generously identified, translated, glossed and indeed typed the quota- tions from classical Greek that pepper the text. Henry Hardy, of Wolfson College, Oxford, provided further help. It seemed unnecessary to provide footnotes identifying people of the stat- ure of Bach, Blake, Botticelli, Donne, El Greco, Handel, Homer, Shakespeare, Stendhal and Tennyson when editing the manuscript for publication. For the elucidation of material in the footnotes and editorial introduction I thank the Archivist of Charterhouse school, the late Lord Beaumont of Whitley, Lord Gladwyn, and Carraigh Thompson of Patmos. For permission to quote from Trevor-Roper’s correspondence with Charles Stuart, I am grateful to his children Susan Chater and William Stuart; and for permission to quote from the diary of the Marquess of Lincolnshire, I thank viii • Hugh Trevor-Roper the Hon. Rupert Carington. The photograph of Stuart Hampshire is © The Isaiah Berlin Literary Trust 2009, and reproduced with the permission of the trustees. The index of the text of The Wartime Journals was compiled by Trevor-Roper himself. For rendering Trevor-Roper’s index cards into a manageable form, as for certain technical refinements and supplementary material, Christopher Phipps has been invaluable. Jenny Davenport’s scrutiny of the proofs detected a dribble of irregularities. It is wrong for an editor to foist a dedication on a book which has been written by someone else, and I do not think of doing so; but I wish to acknow- ledge the kindness and generosity shown to me by Simon Barrow and Charles Sebag-Montefiore during my work on this volume. They are both, however, so modest that they would doubtless disavow the extent of their goodness to me. Le Meygris, Ailhon Glossary of Names and Initials B-W John Barrington-Ward Dickie Richard Dawson Dicksie Richard Marshall Gilbert Gilbert Ryle Logan Logan Pearsall Smith M.E. Kenneth Morton Evans
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