Madcap, dictator, beast — history has given Adolf Hitler numerous names. In Mein Kampf( My Struggle), frequently called the Nazi bible, Hitler describes his life, frustrations, ideals, and dreams. Born to an impoverished couple in a small city in Austria, the youthful Adolf grew up with the hot desire to come a painter. The death of his parents and outright rejection from art seminaries in Vienna forced him into underpaid work as a drudge. During the First World War, Hitler served in the army and was decorated for frippery. After the war, he came laboriously involved with socialist political groups and snappily rose to power, establishing himself as Chairman of the National Socialist German Worker's party. In 1924, Hitler led a coalition of nationalist groups in a shot to erect the Bavarian government in Munich. The ignominious Munich" Beer- hall putsch" was unprofitable, and Hitler was arrested. During the nine months he was in captivity, an resentful and frustrated Hitler mandated a particular fiat to his pious follower Rudolph Hess. He vented his sentiments against communism and the Jewish people in this document, which was to come Mein Kampf, the controversial book that's seen as the blue- print for Hitler's political and military crusade. In Mein Kampf, Hitler describes his strategy for rebuilding Germany and conquering Europe. It's a regard into the mind of a man who destabilized world peace and pursued the genocide now known as the Holocaust.