In the Garden of Beasts audiobook cover art
In the Garden of Beasts Audiobook
$31.95 $4.99 Add to cart
Sale!

In the Garden of Beasts Audiobook

$4.99

-84%

by Erik Larson

  • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
  • Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
  • Release date: 05-10-11
  • Language: English

Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in his new book, the best-selling author of Devil in the White City turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power.

The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.

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 experience days full of excitement, intrigue, romance – and ultimately, horror, when a climactic spasm of violence and murder reveals Hitler’s true character and ruthless ambition.

Suffused with the tense atmosphere of the period, and with unforgettable portraits of the bizarre G’ring 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. The result is a dazzling, addictively listenable work that speaks volumes about why the world did not recognize the grave threat posed by Hitler until Berlin, and Europe, were awash in blood and terror.

Additional information

Language

English

Release date

05-10-11

Length

12 hrs and 52 mins

Narrated by

Stephen Hoye

Author

Erik Larson

Reviews

There are no reviews yet.

Be the first to review “In the Garden of Beasts Audiobook”
audiobooks