In the Garden of Beasts: Love and Terror in Hitler's Berlin by Larson, Erik - 2011-07-01

London: Doubleday, 2011. Hardcover with dustjacket, 24 cm, 448 pp. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany. 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, including with the suprisingly honorable first chief of the Gestapo, Rudolf Diels. But as evidence of Jewish persecution mounts, confirmed by chilling first-person testimony, her father telegraphs his concerns to a largely indifferent State Department back home. Dodd watches with alarm as Jews are attacked, the press is censored, and drafts of frightening new laws begin to circulate. As that first year unfolds and the shadows deepen, the Dodds… Read More

UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st edn. [Complete number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.] FINE+/FINE+. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt, monochrome+colour photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with capitalised,gilt-lettered author name, capitalised,white-lettered title and other flat printed,part capitalised white lettered credit for author's previous 'The Devil in the White City' title; spine/backstrip with similarly coloured+lettered title+author name as front,a thumbnail colour photograph detail front front's photograph,and publisher's white lettered+illustrated colophon to foot of same,rear panel with same thumbnail photograph detail as spine and 7 critic's yellow+white lettered reviews. Negligible shelf-wear, bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present. Top+fore-edges bright,crisp,clean without foxing/spotting; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread… Read More