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In the garden of beasts : love, terror, and an American family in Hitler's Berlin / Erik Larson. |
| Authors: | Larson, Erik. |
| Call number: | 943.086 LAR |
| Publisher: | New York : Crown, c2011. |
| Publication date: | c2011. |
| Subject: |
Diplomats -- United States -- Biography.
Historians -- United States -- Biography. National socialism -- Germany. Dodd, William Edward, 1869-1940. Germany -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945. |
| Title: | In the garden of beasts : love, terror, and an American family in Hitler's Berlin / Erik Larson. |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Physical description: | xiv, 448 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm. |
| 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". |
| Notes: | Map on end papers. |
| Summary note: | 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. |
| Biography note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [423]-434) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780307408846 0307408841 |
| LCCN: | 2010045402 |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1297781 |
| Bib No.: | 1297781 |