Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, Lord Dacre, was an historian and scholar noted for his works on aspects of the Second World War and on Elizabethan history. Born in Glanton, Northumberland the son of a doctor in January 1914, he graduated from Christ Church College, Oxford, in 1936, and during the Second World War worked in intelligence: his official investigation into Adolf Hitler’s death was later published as The Last Days of Hitler. From 1946 to 1957 he taught history at Christ Church. During this period he wrote several articles about Hitler, stirring controversy by contending that Hitler was not only a systematic thinker but a genius as well. In 1957 he was appointed Regius Professor of Modern History and Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. He remained at this post until 1980, when he was appointed Master of Peterhouse College, Cambridge, where he stayed until 1987. He is also the author of many books, notably: The Rise of Christian Europe (1965); The Philby Affair: Espionage, Treason and Secret Services (1968); A Hidden Life: The Enigma of Sir Edmund Backhouse (1976); From Counter-Reformation to Glorious Revolution (1992); Letters from Oxford: Hugh Trevor-Roper to Bernard Berenson (2006); and finally Europe’s Physician: The Various Life of Sir Theodore de Mayenne (2007). He was created a life peer in 1979 and took the title of Baron Dacre of Glanton in the county of Northumberland. He was thereafter known as Lord Dacre and died in January 2003 at age 89.

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Gerhard L. Weinberg was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1928. His father was a judge who had been wounded, decorated, and promoted during the First World War. He went to school in Hanover during the early Nazi years up to the fifth grade, when he was expelled like all Jewish children following Kristallnacht in November 1938. Most of his father’s family was murdered in the Holocaust. The family arrived in the United States in September 1940. After military service in Japan, Gerhard Weinberg went to graduate school at the University of Chicago for an MA and PhD in 1949 and 1951. He taught for many years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In addition to numerous professional offices, he was a consultant and resident scholar at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and served on the historical advisory committees of the U.S. Air Force, the Army, and the Department of Defense. Acclaimed as one of the great specialists in the history of Nazi Germany and World War II, Gerhard L. Weinberg is the author, editor or co-author of many major works books, among them: Supplement to the Guide to Captured German Documents, (1959); Hitler’s Foreign Policy 1933–1939 (1980–2008); A World At Arms (2005); Visions of Victory: The Hopes of Eight World War II Leaders (2005); and Hitler’s Second Book. The Unpublished Sequel to Mein Kampf (2003). He is also the author of over one hundred articles, chapters, and other publications. Dr. Weinberg lives with his wife in very active retirement in North Carolina.