Léon Degrelle: Hitler, born at Versailles The First World War has long been overshadowed by the even more destructive conflict that followed within twenty years of its end, yet the "Great War" of 1914-1918 cost more than eight million dead and more than twenty million wounded. It shattered empires, spawned blood-drenched revolutions, and set the Third World ablaze with anti-colonial fervor. In a few short years the cataclysm that was the First World War laid low the crowned heads of half of Europe. And from the bloody trenches and bomb-cratered no-man's-lands of its most furious battles would spring forth a lonely and unsung German infantryman, Adolf Hitler, to put his stamp on the twentieth century as has no man before or since. Author Léon Degrelle, a highly decorated combat veteran and a former confidante of the German Fuehrer at the height of his power, has exploited long-neglected documents in this comprehensive history of the war that ignited what he calls "The Hitler Century", the modern Iron Age of total war and fragile peace. His findings smash once and for all the myth of German war guilt. Degrelle argues with passion and eloquence that the corrupt leaders of France's Third Republic, the power-hungry intriguers of Pan-Slavism, the buccaneers of British imperialism, and the shadowy eminences of international finance and world Zionism unleashed and prolonged the carnage. He also exposes the sordid postwar maneuvers of the West's intellectually and morally bankrupt leaders, as they carved up a prostrate central Europe wracked by the alien contagion of Bolshevism. Readers will learn the sinister secret of Sarajevo and the real culprits who sent the Lusitania to its doom; they'll penetrate the gloom that shrouds the real origins of today's Mideast conflict; they'll discover the hidden forces that brought Communism to Russia. They'll slog with British Tommies, French Poilus and German Landsers through the muck of Passchendaele and Verdun; ride with Lawrence through Arabia's sun-dazzled sands; plot with Lenin and a handful of conspirators in Zurich and St. Petersburg; battle Bolsheviks in furious street fights in Munich and Berlin. And those who read this book will grasp the key to the secret origins of Adolf Hitler: that the Third Reich's leader was born, not in Austria in 1889, but in 1919, at Versailles. (Cover text.) (535 pages, 16 x 23.5 cm, hardcover with dust jacket, 16 glossy pages of illustrations, index insert.) Dieses Buch gibt's in Deutsch!