Larson is a marvelous writer...superb at creating characters with a bow-tie and a flourish.
New York Times bestselling author Erik Larson plunges you into 1933 Berlin through the eyes of America’s ambassador and his captivating daughter. Watch in real-time as glittering parties give way to creeping terror. History as gripping as any thriller—because every chilling moment actually happened.
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Devil in the White City, Erik Larson delivers a gripping historical narrative that reads like a thriller—because it’s all true.
Step into Berlin, 1933. The air crackles with change, and not the good kind. William E. Dodd, a mild-mannered Chicago professor, arrives as America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Germany, bringing his wife, son, and vivacious daughter Martha along for what they imagine will be an adventure.
At first, the glittering parties and charismatic young men of the Third Reich seduce Martha. She’s swept up in romance and intrigue, even falling for Rudolf Diels, the surprisingly complex first chief of the Gestapo. But as the months unfold, the veneer cracks. Jewish persecution intensifies. The press falls silent. Ominous new laws circulate. Ambassador Dodd sends increasingly urgent telegrams home—to a State Department that isn’t listening.
What makes this book extraordinary is Larson’s ability to place you there—in the drawing rooms, at the dinner parties, watching in real time as ordinary people navigate an increasingly sinister reality. You’ll meet the bizarre Hermann Göring and the charmingly evil Joseph Goebbels. You’ll feel the creeping dread as the Dodds realize the true horror unfolding around them.
This is history as intimate witness. Meticulously researched yet utterly unputdownable, In the Garden of Beasts reveals how easily terror can bloom—and why the world failed to see it coming until it was too late.
Larson is a marvelous writer...superb at creating characters with a bow-tie and a flourish.
Brilliant and gripping...Larson has hit upon a powerful storytelling device.
Meticulously researched, it reads like a thriller.
Larson's account of the four years the Dodds spent in Berlin is engrossing...What makes his portrait so remarkable is his use of diaries and other documentary sources to convey the Dodds' experience with an immediacy that collapses time.
Larson is an expert at mining the archives for atmospheric detail...the result is a book that reads like a novel.
Expertly researched and told with the pace and style of a thriller.
Fascinating...Larson's ability to evoke the mood of pre-war Berlin is palpable.
A vivid, atmospheric portrait of Berlin during the first years of Hitler's regime.
Larson's talent for rendering an historical moment with such immediacy is what makes his work so thrilling.
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| Dimensions | 5.18 × 1.32 × 7.99 in |
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