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In the garden of beasts : love, terror, and an American family in Hitler's Berlin Cover Image Book

In the garden of beasts : love, terror, and an American family in Hitler's Berlin / Erik Larson.

Larson, Erik. (Author).

Summary:

Documents the efforts of the first American ambassador to Hitler's Germany, William E. Dodd, to acclimate to a residence in an increasingly violent city where he is forced to associate with the Nazis while his daughter pursues a relationship with Gestapochief Rudolf Diels.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780307408853
  • ISBN: 030740885X
  • Physical Description: xviii, 448 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
  • Edition: 1st pbk. edition
  • Publisher: New York : Broadway Paperbacks, [2012?]

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Originally published in hardcover in slightly different form in the United States by Crown Publishers ... in 2011"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 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 aches -- Disquiet -- Berlin at dusk -- When everything changed -- The queer bird in exile -- "Table talk."
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 9.7 22 152519.

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Subject:
Dodd, William E. (William Edward), 1869-1940.
Diplomats > United States > Biography.
Historians > United States > Biography.
National socialism.
Germany > Social conditions > 1933-1945.
Genre:
Biographies.

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