Name: | In the Garden of Beasts |
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By: | Erik Larson |
Narrated by: | Stephen Hoye |
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Length | 12 hrs and 52 mins |
Category: | Biographies & Memoirs, Historical |
Release Date: | 2011-05-09 |
Language: | English |
Stephen Hoye is the author of In the Garden of Beasts. He is a British actor and narrator who has won multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards.
In the Garden of Beasts belongs to the genre of historical non-fiction. Erik Larson is the author of the book.
Some specific details of the story include the following:
-The story is set in Berlin, Germany during the early 1930s
-The protagonist, William Dodd, is an American diplomat who is appointed as the ambassador to Germany
-Dodd and his family move to Berlin and quickly become caught up in the glamour and excitement of the city
-Dodd quickly realizes that the Nazi regime is dangerous and begins to speak out against it, even though it puts his career and family at risk
-The story culminates with the Night of the Long Knives, when the Nazi regime carries out a mass purge of its enemies, and Dodd narrowly escapes being killed himself
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