Preface: Man who burned books

1: Frontline reading, 1915

2: Mentor's trade

3: Hitler trilogy

4: Lost philosopher

5: Book wars

6: Divine inspiration

7: Frontline reading, 1940

8: Hitler's history of the Second World War

9: Miracle deferred

Afterword: Fates of books

Acknowledgments

Appendixes

Appendix A: Description of Hitler's library from "This is the enemy" / Frederick Oechsner, 1942

Appendix B: Description of the Berghof book collection from a classified report by the US Army Twenty-First Counterintelligence Corps, May 1945

Appendix C: Library of a Dilettante: a glimpse into the private library of Herr Hitler / Hans Beihack, Suddeutsche Zeitung, November 9, 1946

Appendix D: Report on the Adolph [sic] Hitler collection and recommendations regarding its arrangement / Arnold J Jacobius, intern, rare books division, Library of Congress, January 9, 1952

Notes

Index.