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

4.0

That was a fascinating read. I will very rarely read about about the Holocaust or WWII, even though it truly is fascinating because I'm well surrounded by it all day at work. But, I do enjoy this author, this being the third of his books I've read, so this is one of those rare occasions. By looking at the rise of the Nazi party and Hitler himself through the lens of US ambassador Dodd and his family the whole of it all seems even more absurd than a regular history book. And he took the job to be a beacon of American idealism and to, ironically, write a tome on the Civil War, called The Old South. Fascinating.