[2] He earned a Master of Arts degree from the U of A in 1929, but by this time he had already returned to England, where he embarked on a successful career as an editor and publisher.
He also founded the short-lived Lovat Dickson’s Magazine (20 issues, November 1933 to June 1935) in which he published short stories by such writers as Walter de la Mare, H. E. Bates, Fritiof Nilsson, V. S. Pritchett, and D. H.
Dickson made Grey Owl a celebrity in Great Britain by taking him on two highly successful promotional tours in 1935 and 1937.
[4]: 119ff, 181ff Pilgrims of the Wild was a huge bestseller when it was published in 1934, and Grey Owl's popularity in the United Kingdom reached a "phenomenal" level.
[6] In 1938, Dickson sold his catalogue to the publisher Peter Llewelyn Davies and joined the staff of Macmillan & Company in London.
[7] Dickson believed that Trevor-Roper's vivid account of the last ten days of Hitler's life would be a bestseller and won the bidding war to publish it.
[8] The right-wing Zionist group Irgun, which was engaged in a guerrilla war against the British in the Palestine Mandate, issued a press statement sentencing Trevor-Roper to death, claiming that his book was supposedly a collective exoneration of the Germans.