In the garden of beasts [electronic resource] : love, terror, and an American family in Hitler's Berlin / Erik Larson.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307887955 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0307887952 (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 448 p.) : ill., map.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Crown, c2011.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [423]-434) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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." |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Stephen Hoye. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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Subject: | Dodd, William Edward, 1869-1940. Diplomats > United States > Biography. Historians > United States > Biography. Germany > Social conditions > 1933-1945. National socialism > Germany. |
Genre: | Electronic books. |