Education
He was educated at Aylesbury Grammar School and read History and Modern Languages at Oxford University.
He was educated at Aylesbury Grammar School and read History and Modern Languages at Oxford University.
He did postgraduate work at Sussex University on the rise of the extreme right in Germany in the early twentieth century. Before embarking on the series of historical monographs for which he is best known, he translated The Goebbels Diaries 1939–1941 into English and wrote novels set in Germany.