A review by bibliovino
Watching Darkness Fall: FDR, His Ambassadors, and the Rise of Adolf Hitler by David McKean

4.0

Gripping behind the scenes portrait of the US governments response to the decent into chaos that was the time before WWII. We see through the eyes of FDR and his ambassadors in Europe as Hitler rises in power and the atrocities against the Jews rack up. It was so disturbing how even these world leaders and champions of democracy slipped into the banality of evil along with the rest of the world. They redeem themselves in the end, but don’t delude yourself into thinking it was all altruistic. Fascinating.

Thank you to St Martin’s Press and Netgalley for my free copy. These opinions are my own.