In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

love, terror, and an American family in Hitler's Berlin

by Erik Larson

448 pages

English language

Published Nov. 15, 2012 by Crown.

ISBN:: 978-0-307-40885-3

(4 reviews)

The bestselling author of "Devil in the White City" turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler's rise to power. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.

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4 stars

Interesting material, but I don't know if the narrative treatment Larson gave it was a good fit. A wider perspective might have worked better. Martha was not a very sympathetic character.