The Day We Had Hitler Home

As the Great War ends, a blinded soldier who cannot speak is evacuated by mistake and sails to Australia among its returning heroes. In a small New South Wales fishing port he meets Audrey McNeil, who dreams of making films and is locked in battle with her sister Sybil. His stay is short, but it changes her, waking her to politics, love and a fast-changing modern age. Yet is he really Adolf Hitler, as he claims?

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Australia, 1919

First published

2000

Author's age

65 when first published

ISBN

9780330361989 (Picador, Australia)

9781862073845 (Granta Books, United Kingdom)

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