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In the garden of beasts : love, terror, and an American family in Hitler's Berlin / Erik Larson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Larson, Erik, 1954-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dodd, William E. (William Edward), 1869-1940.
- Diplomats--United States--Biography.
- Diplomats.
- United States.
- Historians--United States--Biography.
- Historians.
- Germany--Social conditions--1933-1945.
- Germany.
- Social conditions.
- National socialism.
- Social history.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 448 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Broadway Paperbacks, [2012?]
- 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 Gestapo chief Rudolf Diels.
- Contents:
- 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."
- Notes:
- "Originally published in hardcover in slightly different form in the United States by Crown Publishers ... in 2011"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [423]-434) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780307408853
- 030740885X
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