 First edition | |
| Author | Rodney Hall |
|---|---|
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Picador, Australia |
Publication date | 2000 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 351 pp |
| ISBN | 0-330-36198-8 |
| OCLC | 45585099 |
| 823/.914 21 | |
| LC Class | PR9619.3.H285 D39 2000 |
| Preceded by | The Island in the Mind |
| Followed by | The Last Love Story |
The Day We Had Hitler Home is a 2000 novel by the Australian author Rodney Hall. [1]
In 1919 a young German soldier, blinded by gas, joins the wrong queue of evacutees. He is also unable to speak and so cannot tell anyone his name, private first-class Adolf Hitler. As a result he mistakenly boards a steamer headed for Australia.
Joanna Giffiths in The Observer noted that the book "jerks the reader to attention by depositing Hitler into the plot, only to recede into opaque twists and obscuring quirkiness." [4]
After the novel's initial publication by Picador in Australia in 2000 [5] it was then published as follows:
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