In the garden of beasts
Subtitle: love and terror in Hitler's Berlin
By: Erik Larson
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780857520425; 9780857520432
Subjects: Social conditions; Diplomats; Americans; Biography; National socialism
Description: The author describes life in Berlin during the first years of Hitler?s reign through the stories of two people: William E. Dodd, who in 1933 became America?s first ambassador to Hitler?s regime, and his daughter, Martha.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-434) and index.
Table of contents: title: Into the wood; title: House hunting in the Third Reich; title: Lucifer in the garden; title: How the skeleton aches; title: Disquiet; title: Berlin at dusk; title: When everything changed; title: The queer bird in exile; title: 'Table talk'.