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Adam Sisman’s ‘Honourable Englishman,’ on Hugh Trevor-Roper – NYTimes.com
The English historian Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914-2003) is best remembered, if at all, for a humiliating blunder. He was the Oxford and Cambridge scholar who, in 1983, was called upon to authenticate diaries, discovered by the German magazine Stern, said to be Hitler’s. Trevor-Roper didn’t merely…