Hitler The Unknown Soldier 19141918

Adolf Hitler the fighting man is the subject of this engrossing feature chronicling the future dictators combat experience as a foot soldier in World War I Excerpts from Hitlers letters from the front recollections of regimental comrades and evaluations by his officers offer a revealing portrait of a brooding fearless loner who preferred battlefields to brothels frontline service to home leave and kept the men he frequently risked his life to protect at arms length In a world of death hardship and discipline Hitler sought comfort in the companionship of his English terrier and in sketches and watercolors he rendered during lulls It speculates on the influence wartime service exercised on his personal and political development filling a critical gap for any sincere appraisal of Hitlers psyche motives and subsequent actions