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

dark informative medium-paced

4.25

This is the second Erik Larson book that I’ve read and once again, he is able to create a novel-like reading experience while writing about history. This particular book focuses on the lead up to the “Night of the Long Knives” in 1934, as experienced by the US ambassador to Germany and his family. It is a really entertaining and informative look at the personalities behind the Nazi officials and how things can seem to exist in a grey area (Dodd’s own antisemitism, the hospitality of the Germans) until they don’t!