Books on the Holocaust, Hitler, and oppression are ubiquitous and yet none answer how Hitler achieved power. Or, what was the makeup of a mind that deliberately inflicted unimaginable horrors on millions?
Meet Friedrich Richard. Richard is an amnesiac soldier who encounters Hitler in the mental ward at Pasewalk Hospital in 1918. Hitler, suffering from hysterical blindness, introduces himself to Friedrich as Wolf. The future Führer becomes dependent upon Friedrich for assistance, forming an unbreakable bond between the two men.
Friedrich is history’s eyes and ears. He interacts with real people, places, and events through a fifteen-year friendship that witnesses Hitler turn from an undistinguished corporal into a maniacal dictator. In Wolf, Winter uses meticulous research to construct a portrait of the evolving Hitler that will satisfy history buffs and fiction fans alike. More than that, Wolf lifts the curtain on what Hitler and historians have kept closed for one hundred years. Wolf reveals those truths like no other book that has ever been written.
Fiction
Wolf: A Novel
- From the Publisher
September 1, 2019
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