The function of a genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.

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Influence
In 1960 Trevor-Roper waged a successful campaign against the candidacy of Sir Oliver Franks who was backed by the heads of houses marshalled by Maurice Bowra for the Chancellorship of the University of Oxford and had his old friend and publiHugh Trevor-Roperr the Prime Minister Harold Macmillan elected instead. Carr's Success Story" pages 69–77 from Encounter Volume 84 Issue #104 1962
Blitzkrieg to Defeat: Hitler's War Directives 1939-1945 1965 1964. His book The Last Days of Hitler was a popular and critical success.

His book The Last Days of Hitler was a popular and critical success. Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper (15 January 1914 – 27 January 2003) was an English historian of early modern Britain and Nazi Germany and Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford.