Hugh Trevor-Roper Bücher

Jing Shan, ein Mandschu-Gelehrter aus vornehmer Familie und Verwandter der Kaiserinwitwe, wurde während des Boxeraufstands 1900 ermordet. Edmund Backhouse rettete Shans Schriftrollen, darunter ein geheimnisvolles Tagebuch, das die Ereignisse am Kaiserhof während des Aufstands detailliert beschreiben soll. Neun Jahre lang hielt Backhouse seinen Fund geheim, bis er Teile davon in China veröffentlichte. Das Buch wurde zum Klassiker und prägt bis heute unser Bild von China, basiert jedoch auf einer grandiosen Fälschung von Backhouse. Hugh Trevor-Ropers Untersuchung des Tagebuchs beleuchtet das Leben eines Gelehrten und Gentlemans, der ein Meister der Camouflage war. Trotz seines Ansehens als Wissenschaftler und Kenner Chinas, der wertvolle Handschriften und Dokumente an die Bodleian in Oxford spendete, erfand Backhouse absurde Geschichten. Er fälschte Dokumente und Empfehlungsschreiben, gab vor, Freundschaften mit berühmten Persönlichkeiten zu haben, und betrügte Unternehmen. Er hielt Minister und Kriegsherren, aber auch Familie und Freunde mit seinen Geschichten zum Narren. Ein amerikanischer Geschäftsmann bezeichnete ihn als den bemerkenswertesten Schurken in Fernost, während Backhouse selbst von einem „aufregenden Leben im Verborgenen“ sprach.

A carefully chosen selection from the correspondence of Hugh Trevor-Roper, one of the most gifted and famous historians of his generation and one of the finest letter-writers of the 20th century.

A characteristically robust and controversial account of Scotch myth and Scottish history by one of Britain's greatest historians.

The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century collects nine essays by Trevor-Roper on the themes of religion, the Reformation, and social change. As Trevor-Roper explains in his preface, "the crisis in government, society, and ideas which occurred, both in Europe and in England, between the Reformation and the middle of the seventeenth century" constituted the crucible for what "went down in the general social and intellectual revolution of the mid-seventeenth century." 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. Trevor-Roper's essays uncover new pathways to understanding this seminal time. In his longest essay, "The European Witch-craze of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries," Trevor-Roper points out that "In England the most active phase of witch-hunting coincided with times of Puritan pressure--the reign of Queen Elizabeth and the period of the civil wars--and some very fanciful theories have been built on this coincidence. But ... the persecution of witches in England was trivial compared with the experience of the Continent and of Scotland. Therefore ... [one must examine] the craze as a whole, throughout Europe, and [seek] to relate its rise, frequency, and decline to the general intellectual and social movements of the time. . . ." Neither Catholic nor Protestant emerges unscathed from the examination to which Trevor-Roper subjects the era in which, from political and religious causes, the identification and extirpation of witches was a central event

As a British Intelligence Officer during World War II, Hugh Trevor-Roper was expressly forbidden from keeping a diary due to the sensitive and confidential nature of his work. However, he confided a record of his thoughts in a series of slender notebooks inscribed OHMS (On His Majesty's Service). The Wartime Journals reveal the voice and experiences of Trevor-Roper, a war-time 'backroom boy' who spent most of the war engaged in highly-confidential intelligence work in England - including breaking the cipher code of the German secret service, the Abwehr. He became an expert in German resistance plots and after the war interrogated many of Hitler's immediate circle, investigated Hitler's death in the Berlin bunker and personally retrieved Hitler's will from its secret hiding place. The posthumous discovery of Trevor-Roper's secret journals - unknown even to his family and closest confidants - is an exciting archival find and provides an unusual and privileged view of the Allied war effort against Nazi Germany. At the same time they offer an engaging - sometimes mischievous - and reflective study of both the human comedy and personal tragedy of wartime.

Secret conversations at Hitler's headquarters from July 1941 to November 1944 were all recorded for posterity. This book documents those conversations where Hitler talked freely of his aims, his early life, and his plans for world conquest.