In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

by Erik Larson

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  sack.1: Erik Larson

  I walked across the snowy plain of the Tiergarten—a smashed statue here, a newly planted sapling there; the Brandenburger Tor, with its red flag flapping against the blue winter sky; and on the horizon, the great ribs of a gutted railway station, like the skeleton of a whale. In the morning light it was all as raw and frank as the voice of history which tells you not to fool yourself; this can happen to any city, to anyone, to you.

  —Christopher Isherwood,

  Down There on a Visit

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  ERIK LARSON is the author of The Devil in the White City, Thunderstruck, Isaac’s Storm, and other works of nonfiction. He has written for a variety of national magazines and is a former staff writer for the Wall Street Journal and Time. He lives in Seattle with his wife, three daughters, and an old British sports car named Mrs. Peel.