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In the Garden of Beasts
- Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
- By: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 9,121
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7,714
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Story4 out of 5 stars 7,701
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. A mild-mannered professor from Chicago, Dodd brings along his wife, son, and flamboyant daughter, Martha. At first Martha is entranced by the parties and pomp, and the handsome young men of the Third Reich with their infectious enthusiasm for restoring Germany to a position of world prominence. Enamored of the “New Germany,” she has one affair after another....
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5 out of 5 stars
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I loved it ... and hated it ... simultaneously
- By History on 11-21-11
- In the Garden of Beasts
- Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
- By: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
Excellent!
Reviewed: 07-27-20
This book is very well written, extremely well narrated, chilling, and it’s all true. The author did an excellent job, and the narrator does really well expressing emotions and doing the German accents. This is a must-read/listen if you have any interest in learning about Nazi Germany.
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