Garden Of Beasts

In the garden of beasts.

Garden of beasts. Love terror and an american family in hitler s berlin is a 2011 non fiction book by erik larson. A mild mannered chicago professor becomes america s first ambassador to hitler s germany just before the nazis began to assert an iron grip across europe. Directed by joe wright.

A human side shown for most of the characters even some of the nazi s. I ve read a fair number of books about the holocaust and i did find the political maneuvering described in garden interesting in a stomach turning sickening kind of way. The result is a.

Suffused with the tense atmosphere of the period and with unforgettable portraits of the bizarre göring and the expectedly charming yet wholly sinister goebbels in the garden of beasts lends a stunning eyewitness perspective on events as they unfold in real time revealing an era of surprising nuance and complexity. Garden of beasts is packed with fascinating period detail and features a cast of perfectly realized locals olympic athletes and senior nazi officials some real some fictional. In the garden of beasts is the second book i ve read by larson and i m sorry to say the two don t compare.

Set around 1936 hitler s world olympics in berlin. Larson recounts the career of the american ambassador to germany.