In the Garden of Beasts
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In the Garden of Beasts
| Full title | In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin |
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| Author | Erik Larson |
| Published | 2011 |
| Pages | 481 |
| Recommended | 2 times |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Erik Larson’s narrative history of William Dodd, America’s first ambassador to Nazi Germany, and his daughter Martha — the slow realisation, from inside Berlin, of what was actually happening. |
Where I heard about it
- Replies to @moseskagan — named in the replies to his question “What historical fiction should I read next?”, April 2025. Full list: What historical fiction should I… (tweet).
- Replies to @typesfast — named again, independently, in the replies to “What’s the best history book you’ve read?”, June 2025. Full list: What’s the best history book… (tweet).
Connections
- What historical fiction should I… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
- History
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