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Erik Larson has been greatly acclaimed as a professional of narrative non-fiction, and in his new booklet, the best-selling author of Devil in the White City transforms his hands to a impressive story establish during Hitler's climb to power. The time is 1933, the area, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a calendar year that proved to be a turning point ever sold. A mild-mannered professor from Chicago, Dodd brings along his partner, kid, and flamboyant princess, Martha. At first, Martha is entranced by the get-togethers and pomp, and the handsome young men of the Third Reich with the infectious eagerness for rebuilding Germany to a position of world prominence. Enamored of the "New Germany", she has one affair after another, including with the suprisingly honorable first chief of the Gestapo, Rudolf Diels. But as evidence of Jewish persecution mounts, established by chilling first-person testimony, her dad telegraphs his concerns to a typically indifferent STATE DEPT. back. Dodd pieces with alarm as Jews are attacked, the press is censored, and drafts of frightening new laws get started to circulate. As that first calendar year unfolds and the shadows deepen, the Dodds experience days and nights full of thrills, intrigue, romance - and inevitably, horror, whenever a climactic spasm of violence and murder reveals Hitler's true character and ruthless ambition. Suffused with the anxious atmosphere of the time, and with remarkable portraits of the bizarre Gödiamond ring and the expectedly alluring - yet wholly sinister - Goebbels, In the Garden of Beasts lends a stunning, eyewitness point of view on incidents as they unfold in real time, revealing a time of shocking nuance and complexity. The result is a stunning, addictively listenable work that speaks quantities about why the globe did not realize the grave hazard posed by Hitler until Berlin, and European countries, were awash in blood and terror.
