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Hugh Trevor-Roper visited China for three weeks in 1965 under the auspices of the Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding. Subsequently he was the leading protagonist in a publicly-fought battle over the clandestine finances, communist affiliations, ideological propaganda and organisational mismanagement of SACU, which he indicted as a front for Maoist agents of influence. Two years later he visited Taiwan, Thailand and Cambodia. His detailed ...

During World War II, Britain enjoyed spectacular success in the secret war between hostile intelligence services, enabling a substantial and successful expansion of British counter-espionage. Hugh Trevor-Roper's experiences working for the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) during the war had a profound impact on him and he later observed the world of intelligence with particular sharpness. To him, the subjects of wartime espionage and the comp...

Journals exploring the political and cultural dynamics of Asia in the sixties, bringing together Trevor-Roper's observations of visits to Mao's China, Taiwan, Thailand and Cambodia. Defends liberal values and practices against their ideological opponents, in different places and different forms.

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Con l'intelligente e tutto britannico empirismo che gli è proprio, Trevor-Roper evita di addentrarsi nel fitto ginepraio dei massimi problemi e delle categorie astratte, per calarsi invece nella realtà e spaziare a piacer suo dalla Venezia della prima metà del '400 all'Inghilterra di Elisabetta e dei primi Stuart, dall'età di Massimiliano I d'Asburgo e di Tommaso Moro alla grande catastrofe della guerra dei Trent'anni. L'autore riesce così off...

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Edited by Richard Davenport-Hines, these wartime journals of Hugh Trevor-Roper are an exciting archival find. They provide an unusual and privileged view of the Allied war effort. Now in paperback.

In a one-volume abridgement, these sixteenth-century letters paint a magnificent portrait of family life amidst the intrigue, terror, and politics of the court of Henry VIII. The culmination of Lord Lisle's imprisonment in the Tower of London.

The posthumous discovery of Hugh Trevor-Roper's secret journals written during WWII is an exciting archival find. He served in the Secret Intelligence Service and his journals offer a privileged view of the Allied war effort.

During World War II, Britain enjoyed spectacular success in the secret war between hostile intelligence services, enabling a substantial and successful expansion of British counter-espionage which continued to grow in the Cold War era. Hugh Trevor-Roper's experiences working in the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) during the war left a profound impression on him and he later observed the world of intelligence with particular discernment. To T...

This book represents the most important and most compelling aspects of Trevor-Roper's work on the Third Reich, much of which is previously unpublished.

Unearths scholars with bizarre sexual fantasies, eunuchs, rare manuscripts and a malicious dowager Queen, and sets them all against the backdrop of a decadent and intrigue-ridden Imperial Court.

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The Civil War, the Restoration, and the Glorious Revolution in England laid the institutional and intellectual foundations of the modern understanding of liberty, of which we are heirs and beneficiaries. The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century uncovers new pathways to understanding this seminal time. Neither Catholic nor Protestant emerges unscathed from the examination to which Trevor-Roper subjects the era in which, from political and religiou...

Among the papers of Hugh Trevor-Roper, who died in 2003, was a manuscript to which he had repeatedly turned for more than thirty years, but never published. Attracted by the diverse life and vivid personality of Sir Theodore de Mayerne (1573-1655), the most famous physician in Europe of his time, Trevor-Roper pursued him across national and intellectual frontiers to uncover the details of his extraordinary life. Exploring an array of English a...

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In September 1945 the circumstances surrounding Hitler's death were dark and mysterious. Hugh Trevor-Roper, an intelligence officer, was given the task of uncovering the last few weeks of Hitler's life. His brilliant piece of detective work proved finally that Hitler had killed himself and also tells the story of the last days of the Thousand Year Reich in the Berlin Bunker.

In late 1945 the fate of Adolf Hitler was a complete mystery. Missing for four months, he had simply vanished. Hugh Trevor-Roper, a British intelligence officer, was given the task of solving the mystery. With access to American counterintelligence files and German prisoners, his brilliant detective work proved finally that Hitler had killed himself in Berlin. It also produced one of the most fascinating history books ever written.Originally p...