Letters from Oxford: Hugh Trevor-Roper to Bernard Berenson - Rilegato

'wonderfully wise and witty...... in Trevor-Roper, as these letters drenched in irony attest, history had discovered a profound analyst who was also a consummate stylist' (Christopher Silvester THE SUNDAY TIMES)

'Richard Davenport-Hines's introduction is so crisp and perceptive.' (Ferdinand Mount THE SPECTATOR)

'Trevor-Roper proves a wonderful letter-writer, filling his pages with outrageously funny accounts of Oxford goings-on and malicious London gossip.' (Derwent May THE TIMES)

'... the book would be worth buying for it [Roper's account of his campaign to get Macmillan elected Chancellor of Oxford University]. But other reasons for buying this book will be found on almost every page; not least among them is the skill of the editor, Richard Davenport-Hines, whose deft annotations somehow contrive to be both economical and omniscient.' (Noel Malcolm THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH,)

'These letters offer sheer, unadulterated pleasure.' (Mark Bostridge THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY)

'Skilfully edited by Richard Davenport-Hines, this volume is a consolation at any season, and, it must be hoped, is the forerunner of many more to come.' (L G Mitchell THE TLS)

'The letters focus best on teh 'guerilla-warfare of the cloister,' the elections to the Wardenship of All Souls, to the Regius Professorship of Poetry.' (John Saumarez Smith COUNTRY LIFE)

'contain masterpieces of wit and irony...... Davenport-Hines has added some masterly notes and an excellent introduction' (THE FINANCIAL TIMES Robin Lane-Fox)

'this very entertaining volume.....superbly edited by Richard Davenport-Hines.' (Adam Sisman LITERARY REVIEW)

Hugh Trevor-Roper, one of the most famous historians of his generation, was born in 1914. He worked in the Secret Intelligence Service 1939-45. In 1945 he was sent to investigate the evidence for Hitler's death and in 1947 published his most famous book, THE LAST DAYS OF HITLER. He taught history at Christ Church from 1946 until 1957 when Harold Macmillan appointed him Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford. He was Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge, 1980-87. He became Lord Dacre of Glanton in 1979 and died in January 2003.