The Day We Had Hitler Home

London: Granta Books. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket; Minor shelf wear to unclipped DJ, . corners lightly bumped. ; Blue cloth boards with silver gilt lettering to . spine, cream endpapers. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside.. 2001. First British Edition. Hardcover. First Printing; 368 pages; It is 1919, and the Great War ends as it began, with blunders of various sizes. At Versailles, the first national act of a young Australia is to sign a peace treaty destined to ruin Germany and create the conditions in which Nazism would thrive. At Yandilli, a remote fishing port in New South Wales, a soldier blinded by gas stumbles off the troop ship and into the homecoming celebrations. But it is not his home: blinded by gas a young private first class of the Sixteenth Bavarian Infantry, reserve Division, had joined the wrong queue during the evacuation of a field ambulance station. Gas blisters in his throat stop him telling anyone that he is German and that his name is Adolf Hitler. Audrey McNeil spots him through the lens of her greatest treasure, a movie camera. When she's asked to translate for him, she realizes that this strange soldier from the old world could be a useful weapon in her own war with her elder sister and guardian Sybil, her step-brother Immanuel, and the small town she is growing up in. 'Hitler', if that's really his name, may be just what she's been waiting for. ; 1862073848 .