Hello and welcome to the latest episode of Battleground 44 with me Saul David.

Today in the latest instalment of our Warlord mini-series, we're talking to

award-winning historian Roger Morehouse about the biggest beast of them all, Adolf Hitler.

Roger is an occasional co-hosts of this podcast, as listeners will know, but he's also a highly

respected military historian whose books include killing Hitler, a copy of which I've just learned

from Wikipedia was found

on the desk of Al-Sadi Gaddafi's desk after he had fled his office in Libya in 2011. Is that true,

Roger? That is true, yes. Great story. You couldn't make it up. Indeed. You've also written

Berlin at war, the Devil's Alliance and First to Fight. So Roger, welcome to

Battleground 44. Thank you, Saul. Nice as be here. So Hitler, where to start, where to end,

you know, how to deal with this extraordinary character. I suppose the really obvious point

most people remember about him is that he reaches the lofty rank of Gephriter in the Bavarian

army in World War I.

The equivalent, I think, you'll have to tell me, I think that's Lance Corporal, isn't it?

Yeah, well, he's generally referred to as the Bohemian Corporal, which is kind of slightly inaccurate, I suppose, in both respects.

But, yeah, he's generally considered to have been a corporal, which is fairly lowly,

as you know.

Yeah, it's lowly, isn't it?

And 20 years later, of course, at the start of the Second World War, he's Fuhrer,

and with that, he's supreme commander of the German armed forces.

Now, most sensible politicians, I think we can agree should leave the business of fighting

a war to the professionals.

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