{"product_id":"9781400069767","title":"An Honourable Englishman","description":"He was one of the most gifted scholars of his generation—a brilliant writer, high-society star, and cultural force who moved easily between aristocratic houses and the humble haunts of literary bohemia. He developed a lucid prose style that he used to scathing effect, earning notoriety for his sharp attacks on other historians. Now this superb biography of Hugh Trevor-Roper, universally acclaimed overseas, makes its anticipated American debut.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith incisive knowledge of the man and access to never-before-published letters, Adam Sisman paints a fascinating portrait of this charismatic, contentious, contradictory character. Sisman examines Trevor-Roper’s middle-class upbringing in a house so empty of affection that it caused, as he put it, his “almost physical difficulty in expressing emotion.” He traces Trevor-Roper’s career from his early academic triumphs to his later failure to produce the big book expected of him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSisman also provides riveting new details of the high drama of Trevor-Roper’s World War II intelligence work—in which he boldly blew the whistle on bureaucratic infighting that imperiled British code-breaking—and the exclusive investigation of Hitler’s death that inspired his bestselling postwar triumph, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Days of Hitler\u003c\/i\u003e. As never before, Trevor-Roper’s personal life is explored, including his passionate affair with an older, married woman. Finally, \u003ci\u003eAn Honourable Englishman\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the truth behind his public substantiation of the false Hitler diaries in 1983, a misstep (encouraged by his impatient employer Rupert Murdoch) that forever tainted his reputation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProfoundly bright and brutally acerbic, Hugh Trevor-Roper was a literary lion like no other, and in \u003ci\u003eAn Honourable Englishman\u003c\/i\u003e he receives the absorbing biography he deserves.","brand":"Adam Sisman","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":50867160350880,"sku":"9781400069767","price":15.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/BNCImageAPI_8e2cfd83-ca8a-417a-a478-0d22ed31519c.jpg?v=1720135847","url":"https:\/\/rivendell-books.com\/products\/9781400069767","provider":"Rivendell Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}