Daniel Pick's latest book describes the contribution of psychiatrists, psychotherapists and psychoanalysts to the fight against Fascism in the four or five decades just before, during, and after World War II. As both a psychoanalyst and Professor of History at Birkbeck College in the University of London, he brings a deep understanding of both disciplines to bear on his subject. The greater part of the work focuses first on the writings of Walter Langer about Hitler and those of Henry Dicks on his encounters with Hitler's deputy, Rudolph Hess, and it then broadens out to survey and reflect on psychoanalytic thinking as to how we might prevent anything of the sort ever happening again. This was an urgent practical