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Biographer recounts the Oxford don who spent his life investigating a seven-times married bigamist

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BIOGRAPHY THE PROFESSOR & THE PARSON    by Adam Sisman (Profile £12.99, 240 pp) The Oxford history don Hugh Trevor-Roper is chiefly remembered (poor man) for his one disastrous mistake: his brief authentication of the so-called ‘Hitler diaries’ in 1983. Anyone who enjoyed Adam Sisman’s 2010 biography of Trevor-Roper will be haunted by what must have … Read more

The legendary Paddy Leigh Fermor adored Greece’s Peloponnese – and so will you, says his biographer

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‘They’ll have the coat off your back, they’ll skin you alive, my child!’ This was the warning Patrick Leigh Fermor was given in Sparta, when he said he was going to the Mani in the early Fifties. Having walked across Europe at the age of 18 and kidnapped a German general on Crete from under … Read more