Hitler's First War: Adolf Hitler, the Men of the List Regiment, and the First World War

In Hitler's First War, award-winning author Thomas Weber delivers a master work of history—a major revision of our understanding of Hitler's life. Weber paints a group portrait of the List Regiment, Hitler's unit during World War I, to rewrite the story of his military service. Drawing on deep and imaginative research, Weber refutes the story crafted by Hitler himself, and so challenges the historical argument that the war led naturally to Nazism. Contrary to myth, the regiment consisted la...