I know Erik Larson's work. I've read Isaac's Storm and Devil in the White City and I loved both of those nonfiction books.And so I had expectations for this book. They were met. And exceeded.Garden of the Beasts, like the other Larson books I've read, is a powerful story that was unfamiliar to me pr...
This was another solid book by Erik Larson, but I felt like it was missing some of the magnetism of his other books. I don't know if it was the people involved, or if the story just didn't draw me in like some of his other books, but this one took a while to get into. It was a good read, and I liked...
This is a compelling book covering a brief period of time from the early 1930’s to 1937-38. It highlights the ascent to power of one of the most diabolical minds of modern time and explains how and why he was able to assume the “throne” in Germany and attempt to annihilate the population of the worl...
This book along with Isherwood's 'The Berlin Stories' offer a portrait of Germany's descent into madness and evil during the rise of Hitler and under the dominance of his Nazi machine. It is an incomplete portrait told only by observers without the voice of the victims. Still it is a compelling re...
"This was a really good book. It was a non fiction account of the US ambassador to Germany during the Nazi regime and their perspective of what was going on in Germany at the time. If you like WWII history you will like this book."
I've said this before, while its important that we learn about this material in school, we're being fed information at a time when we just don't care. I was in class in high school when we were introduced to some of the harsher subject matter of the second World War.. but I just didn't care. As sa...
In the Garden of Beasts is a fascinating look inside Nazi Germany, before World War II, before the pogroms and gas chambers. Author Erik Larson follows William Dodd and his family during his first year as the American ambassador to Germany in 1933. Hitler had just become Chancellor and few knew what...
Read the endnotes.In his latest book, Larson relates the experience of the Dodds in pre-WW II Berlin. To be more extact he relates the experiences of Dodd and Dodd's daughter Martha who flirted, or slept with, lots of people and some political theories.It's is too Larson's credit that he (a) doesn'...
While this book went into a great deal about the time that William Dodd spent as ambassador to Germany between 1933-36, and especially about his daughter's life with the Nazi elite, I really could not get into this book at all. I felt through much of it that I was at arm's length, and felt just pity...
Not as exciting as other Larson books but still very well done and insightful. My full review here: http://cineastesbookshelf.blogspot.com/2011/05/review-in-garden-of-beasts-by-erik.html
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