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3.76 AVERAGE
3.76 AVERAGE
This was a good non-fiction read. The author did an excellent job of combining prose and fact, however I was left wanting more details about Hitler and the Nazi regime than what was given. The focus of the book ties two Americans in to the unfolding rise of the Nazis, and in my opinion spends a little too much time focusing on their personal lives. It was interesting, but not compelling, until the last 100 pages. Then it seemed rushed and over too soon.
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Interestinf read/listen with a lot of info that I didn’t know or had forgotten about 1930’s Germany.
A lot of parallels to the modern world that make me cringe quite a bit. Good read/listen for those wanting to understand history.
A lot of parallels to the modern world that make me cringe quite a bit. Good read/listen for those wanting to understand history.
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Definitely a true story worth telling and the author did just that and told in such a way as to show just how Hitler came to power. The synopsis is spot on and I have nothing further to add. Anyone interested in history would find this work enlightening.
I feel like I know a decent bit about Germany of this era - not that I have any real level of expertise, but I have studied it as just about much as any historic era and place, and there is a wealth of information and scholarship out there on the subject. This book approached Hitler's Germany from an angle I hadn't considered, and brought numerous events that in my mind had just come to be one after another into a broader context. It showed the gradual rise of the Nazi regime, the events that led to some of those "inevitable" points of interest which are most often listed. There were many more people shaping events than are usually mentioned, and a shocking amount of it comes down to casual interpersonal interactions rather than rigid formal government actions.
It's hard to compare to Devil in the White City, at least in my mind, but when thinking of Larson's work in general, this has not quite as compelling a narrative as that one does. It's thoroughly researched and the history is presented in an easily approached manner, I just never quite got as invested in the "story line" of the main characters.
It's hard to compare to Devil in the White City, at least in my mind, but when thinking of Larson's work in general, this has not quite as compelling a narrative as that one does. It's thoroughly researched and the history is presented in an easily approached manner, I just never quite got as invested in the "story line" of the main characters.
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A very easy read, though not terribly in-depth. Nonetheless, it offers some interesting insight into 1930's Germany and the lead up to the Night of the Long Knives.
We follow Dodd, the American ambassador, who at the beginning of his tenure was perhaps a little too optimistic - or naive - about the possiblity of guiding the Nazi regime back to a sensible position and preventing the horrors that were still to come.
We follow Dodd, the American ambassador, who at the beginning of his tenure was perhaps a little too optimistic - or naive - about the possiblity of guiding the Nazi regime back to a sensible position and preventing the horrors that were still to come.
informative
reflective
medium-paced