LONDON -- Historian Hugh Trevor-Roper, who investigated "The Last Days of Hitler" in his most famous book but sullied his own reputation by incorrectly authenticating diaries said to have been the ...

I. Introduction: the Baroque century, by Hugh Trevor-Roper. Expansion and contraction ; Watersheds ; Unity - by accident and by force ; The Calvinist diaspora ; Battlefields of the mind ; The search ...