I finished "In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin" by Erik Larson. I both liked it & didn't like it (which is how I also felt about Larson's book "The Devil in the White City").What I liked: Learning details about people & events I didn't know that much abo...
Larson gives us a chilling look at 1933-34 in Nazi Germany through the eyes of the American ambassador and his family. Larson paints the Dodds, especially the daughter Martha, as innocents, showing how they were equal parts seduced by the handsome vigor of the Aryan ideal and bemused by Hitler's gro...
Hitler's rise to power, and consequentially the rise of the Third Reich and the beginning of World War II, has been inexhaustibly documented ..possibly more than any other event. But Erik Larsen takes a different route by placing it in the perspective of the American ambassador to Germany in 1933 an...
What makes this book exceptionally interesting is the perspective, that of Ambassador Dodd, certainly not the best man for the job, and his daughter Martha, who spend four years in Berlin before the outbreak of WWII. They give the reader an anchor to the times, and it's interesting especially to rea...
Once again Erik Larson is an consummate historian. His research is outstanding. I only know of Dodd by name and not much else so this was an eye-opener. Once it again, Larson proves his point that had the US government listened to Dodd as well as others, 6 million lives would have not been lost to t...
I only finished about half this book and then it disappeared from my kindle back to the library. It was an interesting read, but I found myself confused by the number of different people in the book. I couldn't quite keep track of all of them. Will I finish the book? I'm not sure...I would like ...
A true life book that I couldn't put down. I am starting to enjoy these kinds of books more and more. The books that tell a true story but reads likes an adventure. If you are interested in Hitler you will enjoy this book.
Tense entertaining read of the months leading up to Hitler's total takeover of Germany. There are a lot of "characters" in this book, and I would have appreciated a list of who everyone was. Martha Dodd seems pretty cool to hang out with, if a little flighty. This book made me realize how little I k...
Before reading this, I knew some about Hilter's rise to power, but not alot. Certainly I had never heard of the American Ambassador Dodd and found the whole concept of a book from his (and his daughter Martha's) point of view compelling (especially since I enjoyed Devil in the White City so much). ...
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