''Young Adolf'' is a novel written by author

Beryl Bainbridge Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge (21 November 1932 – 2 July 2010) was an English writer. She was primarily known for her works of psychological fiction, often macabre tales set among the English working class. She won the Whitbread Awards priz ...

, and first published in 1978 by

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. Presented as

biographical fiction When studying literature, biography and its relationship to literature is often a subject of literary criticism, and is treated in several different forms. Two scholarly approaches use biography or biographical approaches to the past as a tool for ...

, the book's main character is 23-year-old

Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until Death of Adolf Hitler, his suicide in 1945. Adolf Hitler's rise to power, He rose to power as the lea ...

. Hitler visits relatives in

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, where he gets into serious trouble with the English. The book was adapted for television as ''The Journal of Bridget Hitler'' in 1981.BFI.org
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Novels about Adolf Hitler 1978 British novels Novels set in Liverpool Novels by Beryl Bainbridge Gerald Duckworth and Company books {{1980s-bio-novel-stub