Young Hitler

WHEN ADOLF HITLER went to war in 1914, aged 25, he lived through what he would later call the ''most stupendous experience of my life''. Twice decorated for bravery, the future dictator thrilled to battle, relished violence and was willing to give everything for his beloved Fatherland.

He heard of Germany''s defeat as he lay immobilised in a hospital bed, temporarily blinded from mustard gas. He op...