In the garden of beasts : love, terror, and an American family in Hitler's Berlin
Erik Larson
- 1st ed.
- New York : Crown, c2011.
- xiv, 448 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm. Hardback book.
Map on end papers.
Das Vorspiel -- The man behind the curtain -- Into the wood -- House hunting in the Third Reich -- Lucifer in the garden -- How the skeleton arches -- Disquiet -- Berlin at dusk -- When everything changed -- The queer bird in exile -- "Table talk".
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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Dodd, William Edward 1869-1940
Diplomats--United States Historians--United States National socialism--Germany.