![]() ![]() ![]() He had been a barrister, a publisher, an academic and a journalist and, after Bletchley, he had assisted the prosecution at the Nuremberg war crimes trials. Yet author and historian were only two of his job descriptions. Its 845 pages were a tribute to his lifelong energy, formidable memory and powers of analysis. ![]() By his 96th birthday he had published his 20th book, the ninth edition of his World Politics Since 1945. International affairs was an abiding interest. Peter Calvocoressi, who has died aged 97, was best known as an Ultra intelligence analyst at the Bletchley Park codebreaking centre in Buckinghamshire during the second world war, but this episode represented only four years in a long career with many different aspects. ![]()
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