As a British Intelligence Officer during World War II Hugh Trevor Roper was expressly forbidden from keeping a diary due to the sensitive and confidential nature of his work However he confided a record of his thoughts in a series of slender notebooks inscribed OHMS On His Majesty s Service The Wartime Journals reveal the voice and experiences of Trevor Roper a war time backroom boy who spent most of the war engaged in highly confidential intelligence work in England including breaking the cipher code of the German secret service the Abwehr He became an expert in German resistance plots and after the war interrogated many of Hitler s immediate circle investigated Hitler s death in the Berlin bunker and personally retrieved Hitler s will from its secret hiding place The posthumous discovery of Trevor Roper s secret journals unknown even to his family and closest confidants is an exciting archival find and provides an unusual and privileged view of the Allied war effort against Nazi Germany At the same time they offer an engaging sometimes mischievous and reflective study of both the human comedy and personal tragedy of wartime