Books By Richard Davenport-Hines - Author

Hugh Trevor-Roper 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 became Lord Dacre of Glanton in 1979 and died in January 2003.