An extraordinary novel about the young Hitler, the story of a seventeen year-old art school drop-out and dosser; a courageous and foolhardy soldier whose bravery led him to be certified insane and forced into a mental institution. The novel takes us compellingly into the mind of one of the most feared and reviled men in modern history and brings to life Vienna, Linz, Munich and the battle front of the First World war.

Narrated by Hitler's best friend, their friendship being the spine of the novel, we see Hitler's journey from a lonely and eccentric young man, to being swallowed up into the right-wing fervour which swept Germany in the aftermath of the Great War and finding his voice. The rest is history.

“Hitler’s adolescence and early manhood apparently gave not the slightest indication, that his actions would ever have any effect on the course of history.” -- Dr. Klaus A. Lankheit in his Foreword to the novel and deputy chief of the world’s most extensive archive of documents relating to the Nazi dictatorship, the Institut für Zeitgeschichte.

“It is offensive to our reason and to our experience to be asked to believe that the youthful Hitler was the stuff of which…the Caesars and Bonapartes were made. Yet the record is there to prove us wrong. It is here, in the gap between the explanation and the event, that the fascination of Hitler’s career remains.' -- Alan Bullock

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