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I'm not the type to race through non-fiction, typically, but I could hardly put this book down. The Dodds, real people, unfold as such odd characters that one would think the author had stretched the bounds of credibility had they been made up. The simple Southern history professor who despises pomp, circumstance and excess, yet somehow winds up as US Ambassador to Hitler's Berlin. He seems more concerned with the embassy budget and the length of telegrams than the obvious signs of Germany's military build-up. His daughter, initially a Nazi sympathizer, who has assignations with a ridiculous range of VIPs, including the head of the Gestapo and a Soviet spy, all while still being married to a banker back in the US. And of course, the whole Crazy Circus that was the Reich leadership. Truth truly is stranger than fiction.