The Last Days of Hitler
Hugh Trevor-Roper

He was born in Glanton, Northumberland, and educated at Charterhouse and at Christ Church, Oxford in the Classics. During World War Two, Trevor-Roper served as a Military Intelligence officer. In 1945, he was ordered by the British government to investigate the circumstances of Adolf Hitler's death and to rebut the claims of the Soviet government that Hitler was still alive and living somewhere in the West. This involved him interviewing all the survivors of Hitler's staff. This material became the main source for his book The Last Days of Hitler, 1947 .It is the Trevor-Roper's most famous book.

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The sending of Trevor-Roper to Claude Delorme (lawyer for the State in the Dominici crime ) is completed by two hand-written letters written in the same period. We are in 1955, (at the time of the second inquiry) Trevor-Roper thank Claude Delorme who took charge , on place and for him, to booking of hotel for a stay deprived of the author. While regretting not having been able to meet him Trevor-Roper thanks him by sending him its book:
... I ask you to accept this copy of a small book which I wrote, ten years ago, when I was myself occupied of an inquiry may be so interesting but in no way so difficult as your inquiry on the affair of Lurs...

Description : History of World War Two
First Edition
Paperback, Deckle edges, First Edition Service of Press
Size in ins. : 7,50 X 4,80, 325p.
Paperback : Good
Spine : Yellowed, a little lack in right lower spine Good
inside book : Deckle edges Very Fine
2 letters : Very Fine
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