From February 1933, when he told his generals in secret of his ambition to conquer the East, to September 3, 1939, when he left the Berlin Chancellery for the Polish front, Adolf Hitler had one obsessive goal—to wage war and achieve German revenge and hegemony. As he did in his controversial Hitler's War, David Irving sets forth the events from behind Hitler's desk, as it were, in order to things through his eyes. His use of original and unpublished first­hand material has led him across Europe in search of documents and correspondence.