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

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

Larson, Erik. (Author).

Summary:

The bestselling author of "Devil in the White City" turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler's rise to power. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780307408846
  • ISBN: 0307408841
  • ISBN: 9780307408853
  • ISBN: 030740885X
  • ISBN: 9780307887955
  • ISBN: 0307887952
  • Physical Description: xiv, 448 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Crown, c2011.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Map on end papers.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [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 arches -- Disquiet -- Berlin at dusk -- When everything changed -- The queer bird in exile -- "Table talk".
Subject: Dodd, William Edward, 1869-1940.
Diplomats > United States > Biography.
Historians > United States > Biography.
Germany > Social conditions > 1933-1945.
National socialism > Germany.

Available copies

  • 3 of 3 copies available at Skagit Evergreen Libraries. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at La Conner Swinomish Library District. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at La Conner Regional Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
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La Conner Regional Library 943.08 LARSON 96186 NON FICTION Available -


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