Hugh Trevor-Roper

Extraordinarily gripping, wonderfully vivid -- Richard Holmes
It is a long time since I have enjoyed a book as much as this one -- Robert Harris
This is an outstanding biography of a fascinating and brilliant man * Sunday Telegraph *
Brilliant -- Michael Holroyd
Richly rewarding on every level * Independent *
Sisman tells the story of Trevor-Roper with authority and relish...a perfect biography * Sunday Times *
Detailed, judicious and entertaining, a great treat for those of us who enjoy bitchy don anecdotes * Evening Standard *
Magnificent ... riveting -- Susan Hill * The Lady *
How lucky for Trevor-Roper, and for us, that the ideal biographer was here. It is impossible to praise Sisman's book too highly * Observer *
The combination of Sisman, author of the hugely enjoyable Boswell's Presumptuous Task, and Trevor-Roper, one of the most acerbic and waspish of 20th-century dons, should make this a biography to savour. The feuding was endless, the career impressive, the fall after the Hitler Diaries stupendous * Sunday Times *
A fascinating biography * Spectator *
Sisman provides a gripping narrative of how Trevor-Roper came to authenticate Hitler Diaries..This biography is bursting with similarly compelling episodes from Trevor-Roper's life * Daily Telegraph *
Wonderfully complete and beautifully crafted * Mail on Sunday *
Succeeds triumphantly in making the life of the arrogant don a riveting read...an irresistible story -- Jane Ridley * Spectator *
The great achievement of Sisman's work lies in the way he skilfully places Trevor-Roper's position as perhaps the foremost historian of the mid-20th century into a proper perspective * Financial Times *
This is a fine and serious biography which, on page after page, has made me laugh out loud * Sunday Telegraph *
Detailed, judicious and entertaining * Scotsman *
Adam Sisman's superb HUGH TREVOR-ROPER: THE BIOGRAPHY surpassed anything I read this year * Irish Times *
By miles the best biography I have read this year -- Max Hastings * Mail on Sunday *
I was completely beguiled by Adam Sisman's HUGH TREVOR-ROPER * New Statesman *
This is a richly comic tale, brilliantly told by Adam Sisman * Sunday Express *
An entertaining and scholarly account of the life of the great historian and the milieu of interwar Oxford. * DAILY TELEGRAPH *
Sisman delves deep into the life and mind of his subject in this remarkably well-written biography * SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *
a rewarding read * SUNDAY TIMES *
Sisman's imperious account ... is lovingly researched yet impressively objective, leaving the reader in no doubt as to Trevor-Roper's academic abilities as well as to his failings as a man. * SUNDAY BUSINESS POST *
A comprehensive and entertaining biography, highlighting the successes and failures of a complex man * SOUTH WALES ARGUS *
detailed, judicious and entertaining, a great treat for those of us who enjoy bitchy don anecdotes -- David Sexton * EVENING TELEGRAPH *
Sisman tells the story of Trevor-Roper with authority and relish..a perfect biography -- Robert Harris * SUNDAY TIMES *
How lucky for Trevor-Roper, and for us, that the ideal biographer was here. It is impossible to praise Sisman's book too highly -- AN Wilson * OBSERVER *
Richly rewarding on every level -- Selina Hastings * INDEPENDENT *
This is a fine and serious biography which, on page after page, has made me laugh out loud -- Noel Malcolm * SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *
the thoroughness, fairness and frankness of this biography are exemplary.. consistently engrossing -- Stefan Collini * GUARDIAN *
A reminder of what a realy luminous portrait looks like. Elegant, witty and incisive, it is a study in paradoxes...Sisman casts light into the darkest crannies of a fascniating personality. * THE OLDIE *
Adam Sisman's biography provides a wide-ranging, acute and convincing account of an extremely interesting man. It allows us to get some sense of how his limitations sat side by side with his superb gifts and how the deployment of both were part of a single process. * DUBLIN REVIEW OF BOOKS *