Abstract :
"I could have done better myself," fumes Adolf Hitler in AN Wilson\´s 2007 novel \´Winnie and Wolf\´. The Winnie in question is Winifred Wagner, the German composer\´s daughter-in-law. Wolf is the F??hrer. His disparaging statement refers to a unique aero-engine proposed, but never completed, by Ludwig Wittgenstein during his time as a research student at Manchester University from 1908 to 1911.
