Examines Hitler's years in Munich after World War I and his radical transformation from a directionless loner into the leader of Munich's right-wing movement.

Prelude -- PART I : GENESIS : Coup d'État (20 November 1918-February 1919) -- A Cog in the Machine of Socialism (February to early April 1919) -- Arrested (early April to early May 1919) -- Turncoat (early May to mid to July 1919) -- PART II : NEW TESTAMENTS : A New Home at Last (mid-July to September 1919) -- Two Visions (October 1919 to March 1920) -- A 2500 -Year -- Old Tool (March-August 1920) -- Genius (August to December 1920) -- Hitler's Pivot to the East (December 1920 to July 1921) -- PART III : MESSIAH : The Bavarian Mussolini (July 1921 to December 1922) -- The German Girl from New York (Winter 1923 to summer 1923) -- Hitler's First Book (summer 1923 to autumn 1923) -- The Ludendorff Putsch (autumn 1923 to spring 1924) -- Lebensraum (spring 1924 to1926) -- Epilogue -- Archival collections & private papers and interviews -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Archival collections & private papers and interviews.