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Roland Hill was born in Hamburg in 1920 to prosperity and culture - his father was a sugar trader and his mother an opera singer. Both were of Jewish descent but had converted to Christianity. This is an autobiography of Roland Hill. It enables readers to re-live European history during the darkest period of Nazi Germany and World War II.

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'An absorbing and impressive account of Acton's life... Because Hill's own background has been securely European, as a correspondent for German and Austrian newspapers, he puts Acton back into Europe with a firmness that will help British historians to revise their understanding of Acton's mind and manner.' 'Roland Hill does not sit in judgement on Acton. He is sympathetic as a good biographer should be, but not sycophantic.' New York Times 'Roland Hill's wonderfully detailed biography conveys the full complexity of Acton's life: silver-spooned aristocrat, nephew of a cardinal and son of the First Minister of the Kingdom of Naples, financial disaster area, undistinguished MP for an Irish constituency who nevertheless helped to convert Gladstone, whom he hero-worshipped, to Home Rule.' Eamon Duffy, The Tablet

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Roland Hill was born in Hamburg in 1920 into a wealthy family of Jewish descent. In 1933 the family fled Nazi persecution, moving to Prague, Vienna and Milan before Roland Hill eventually came to London. After serving in the British army during the war Hill enjoyed a successful career as a journalist, working for both the Tablet and as London Correspondent for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

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