Erik Larson, "New York Times" bestselling author of "Devil in the
White City, " delivers 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 Nazi Germany in a year that
proved to be a turning point in history.
A mild-mannered professor from Chicago, Dodd brings along his
wife, son, and flamboyant daughter, Martha. At first Martha is
entranced by the parties and pomp, and the handsome young men of
the Third Reich with their infectious enthusiasm for restoring
Germany to a position of world prominence. Enamored of the "New
Germany," she has one affair after another, including with the
suprisingly honorable first chief of the Gestapo, Rudolf Diels. But
as evidence of Jewish persecution mounts, confirmed by chilling
first-person testimony, her father telegraphs his concerns to a
largely indifferent State Department back home. Dodd watches with
alarm as Jews are attacked, the press is censored, and drafts of
frightening new laws begin to circulate. As that first year unfolds
and the shadows deepen, the Dodds experience days full of
excitement, intrigue, romance--and ultimately, horror, when a
climactic spasm of violence and murder reveals Hitler's true
character and ruthless ambition.
Suffused with the tense atmosphere of the period, and with
unforgettable portraits of the bizarre Goring and the expectedly
charming--yet wholly sinister--Goebbels, "In the Garden of Beasts"
lends a stunning, eyewitness perspective on events as they unfold
in real time, revealing an era of surprising nuance and complexity.
The result is a dazzling, addictively readable work that speaks
volumes about why the world did not recognize the grave threat
posed by Hitler until Berlin, and Europe, were awash in blood and
terror.
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