IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS

Our book club selection for August is In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson.  We will meet on Tuesday, August 20 at 10:30 a.m.

In the Garden of Beasts is set during Hitler's rise to power, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany.  This work sheds some light as to why the world did not recognize the threat posed by Hitler prior to going to war.

Erik Larson is also the author of other nonfiction works such as:

Thunderstruck

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic & Madness at the Fair that Changed America

Isaac's Storm: a Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

If you enjoy Erik Larson's nonfiction, then you may like the titles listed below as well.

To End All Wars: a Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 by Adam Hochschild
1861: The Civil War Awakening by Adam Goodheart
Lost in Shangri-La: a True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II  by Mitchell Zuckoff
The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and the Empire at the Dawn of the American Century by Scott Miller
Death in the City of Light: the Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris by David King
Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation by Charles Glass
Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazis Rise to Power by Andrew Nagorski
Destiny of the Republic: a Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard
Resisting Hitler:  Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra by Shareen Blair Brysac
The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J. Evans

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