In the garden of beasts
Subtitle: love, terror, and an American family in Hitler's Berlin
By: Erik Larson
Edition: 1st large print ed.
Publisher: Random House Large Print
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 676
ISBN-13: 9780739378144
Subjects: Diplomats; National socialism; Historians; Large print books; Social conditions; Biography; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [631]-651) and index.
Table of contents: title: Das Vorspiel; title: The man behind the curtain; title: Into the wood; title: House hunting in the Third Reich; title: Lucifer in the garden; title: How the skeleton arches; title: Disquiet; title: Berlin at dusk; title: When everything changed; title: The queer bird in exile; title: "Table talk."