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Larson, Erik.

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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [423]-434) and index.

Das Vorspiel -- The man behind the curtain -- Into the wood -- House hunting in the Third Reich -- Lucifer in the garden -- How the skeleton aches -- 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.

9780307408846 (hardcover) 0307408841 (hardcover) 9781617934261 (pbk.) 1617934267 (pbk.) 9780307408853 030740885X

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Dodd, William Edward, 1869-1940.


Diplomats--United States--Biography.
Historians--United States--Biography.
National socialism.


Germany--Social conditions--1933-1945.

E748.D6 / L37 2011