“A superb selection ...” Paul Johnson, Standpoint

“The present volume is beautifully produced and the selection from the voluminous correspondence is particularly well judged.” John Banville, Guardian

“What better way to celebrate the centenary of Trevor-Roper's birth than to treat the reading public to a hundred of his letters? ... Collected by two editors who really know the territory and who really understand the ethos of the period, Hugh Trevor-Roper's letters are a marvellous evocation of a world now completely vanished.” Leslie Mitchell, Literary Review

“Trevor-Roper was ... one of the great prose stylists of our times ... and in this magnificent collection of letters dating from the war years until shortly before his death in 2003, he lays into "impertinent adversaries" with wit and gusto ... He would have been delighted to know that his letters ... have been impeccably edited”. Jeremy Lewis, The Oldie

“A masterly editorial touch ... [the editors have] succeeded both in choosing letters of the highest standard and in creating what amounts to a supplementary biography, enhanced by vital, Gibbonian footnotes ...” John Saumarez Smith, Country Life