In the Garden of Beasts

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2011 Crown Publishers International Edition

Copyright © 2011 by Erik Larson

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Larson, Erik.

In the garden of beasts : love, terror, and an American family in Hitler’s Berlin / by Erik Larson.—1st ed.

p. cm.

1. Dodd, William Edward, 1869–1940. 2. Diplomats—United States—Biography. 3. Historians—United States—Biography. 4. Germany—Social conditions—1933–1945. 5. National socialism—Germany. I. Title.

E748.D6L37 2011

943.086—dc22

2010045402

eISBN: 978-0-307-88795-5

Cover design by Whitney Cookman

Cover photograph © The Art Archive/Marc Charmet

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