Volume 1 of 2. Hitler and Machiavelli each have their own hells. Hitler's hell is the ruins of Berlin...the result of his grandiose plan. He sees the rubble and thinks about what might have been... Machiavelli's hell is to wander through history where he meets its greatest men. He talks to those who achieved the power he so much wanted to understand and influence during his own lifetime, and asks why they did they things they did...