A review by laylalk
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson

3.0

Filled with compelling and provocative information if you have an interest in the politics around Hitler's rise to power... It reads, at times, like a more emotional and well-written textbook and it was an almost insurmountable task to try and remember the names and places that wove through the story. The payoff towards the end depends entirely on your expectations for the book. It can be hard to remember that the focus is not on Nazi Germany itself, but rather the American family that became embroiled in German politics during an Ambassadorial appointment.