sink into the past, linger there, and arrive back in the present with the feeling of having
lived in another place and time, at least for a little while."
- Erik Larson
Our next discussion book In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror & an American Family in
Hitler's Berlin, by Erik Larson, will take place on Thursday, December 7 at 10 AM. We
are transported to Berlin 1933 - 1934, observed from the perspective of the College Professor
Turned Ambassador, and his Flirtatious Party Girl Daughter. Protocol & Promiscuity. We see
the events leading up to WWII as experienced by this family, we are given first hand
impressions of key players in the Nazi regime: Hermann Goring, Joseph Goebbels,
Heinrich Himmler and Hitler. We learn something about this time in civilization without
committing to The Rise & Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L.
Shirer, published in 1960, a full 1,614 pages!
Read! Read!! Read!!! Then join us for the discussion.....