A rare first edition of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf, printed in English in 1940 in anticipation of a German invasion of Great Britain, will go under the hammer in Norfolk.

The Nazi leader wrote the book – whose title translates as My Struggle – in 1925 when he was in jail for leading the failed Munich Beer Hall Putsch - an attempt to seize control of the German government two years before.

Eastern Daily Press: The English version of Mein Kampf to be auctioned in Norfolk - Picture: Newman Associates PRThe English version of Mein Kampf to be auctioned in Norfolk - Picture: Newman Associates PR (Image: Newman Associates PR)

The book will be auctioned in Aylsham as part of Keys Auctioneers and Valuer's two-day Books and Ephemera Sale. It has a pre-sale estimate of £300-£400.

Andrew Lindsay-Bullock, Keys' head of books, said: “Mein Kampf remains a highly controversial work, full of unpleasant racist and antisemitic polemic, but it is undeniably an important part of 20th Century history.

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“The book’s publication has always been contentious, although when an annotated edition was finally published in Germany in 2016 – the first since the Second World War – there was a consensus that allowing the book to be disseminated and read widely would help demystify Nazism and root it out in society.”

The 1940 edition was printed as part of the preparations for Operation Sealion - the planned invasion of Great Britain.

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Other books on offer at the sale include a two-volume set of botanical prints depicting the plants, vegetables, fruit and trees called The Highgrove Florilegium, signed by King Charles when he was Prince of Wales. It is being sold to raise funds for the Priscilla Bacon Hospice appeal and has a pre-sale estimate of £3,500-£4,500.

There is also ‘court roll’ - essentially a census - for the village of Lopham in Norfolk, written on vellum in 1560 (estimate £400-£500), and a 2009 first edition of Hilary Mantell’s Wolf Hall (estimate £60-£90).

The sale takes place Thursday (February 23) and Friday at Keys' salerooms and online at bid.keysauctions.co.uk.