The Wartime Journals

ISBN-13: 9781784531935 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 336 str.

Hugh Trevor Roper

Opis

As a British Intelligence Officer during World War II, Hugh Trevor-Roper was expressly forbidden from keeping a diary. However, he confided a record of his thoughts and plans to a series of notebooks inscribed OHMS ( On His Majesty s Service ). The Wartime Journals reveal the voice and experiences of a wartime codebreaker who spent most of the war engaged in highly-confidential intelligence work including breaking the cipher code of the German secret service. He became an expert in German resistance plots and, after the war, interrogated many of Hitler s circle, investigated Hitler s death and personally retrieved Hitler s will. The posthumous discovery of his journals provides an unusual and privileged view of the Allied war effort against Nazi Germany. The journals include some of the elegant, haunting notes made by Trevor-Roper during his work. The resulting book offers an engaging sometimes mischievous and reflective study of both the human comedy and personal tragedy of wartime."

Spis treści

Introduction by Richard Davenport-Hines1940-1194219431944194519461947

O autorze

Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914-2003) was Regius Professor of History at the University of Oxford, UK for over twenty years, a member of the House of Lords from 1979 and Master of Peterhouse College, University of Cambridge, UK 1980-87. His historical interests included England during the 17th century civil wars, the history of ideas during the Renaissance and Enlightenment, 20th-century espionage and treason, and Hitler's Germany. Trevor-Roper was a senior wartime Intelligence officer, and retained his links with the security services until the 1970s. He also travelled widely overseas as a highly regarded special correspondent for the Sunday Times. Richard Davenport-Hines has edited or co-edited three previous volumes of Hugh Trevor-Roper's letters and journals. His most recent book is a study of communist espionage, the Security Service and the Cambridge spies, Enemies Within (2018). He is a Former Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford, UK.