Books

  1. Melanie L

    Melanie L edited the books with additional background information of In the Garden of Beasts Thursday, October 6, 2011.

    • Added The Berlin Stories Very useful in obeervation about the look and feel of Berlin at the time of Hitler's rise.
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  2. Melanie L

    Melanie L edited the books with additional background information of In the Garden of Beasts Thursday, October 6, 2011.

    • Added Franz Von Papen Memoirs Glaring example of one author wanting to seem less complicit in the rise and rule of the Nazi Party than perhaps he really was.
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  3. Melanie L

    Melanie L edited the books with additional background information of In the Garden of Beasts Thursday, October 6, 2011.

    • Added Democrat and Diplomat Martha Dodd wrote a letter to Dallek stating that Dodd's Diary was absolutely authenic.
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  4. Melanie L

    Melanie L edited the books with additional background information of In the Garden of Beasts Thursday, October 6, 2011.

    • Added Lucifer ante portas Portions were used for this book.
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  5. Melanie L

    Melanie L edited the books with additional background information of In the Garden of Beasts Thursday, October 6, 2011.

    • Added Through Embassy Eyes Erik Larson found this very valuable for the writing of this book.
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  6. Melanie L

    Melanie L edited the books with additional background information of In the Garden of Beasts Thursday, October 6, 2011.

    • Added AMBASSADOR DODDS DIARY Erik Larson found this very valuable for the writing of this book.
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  7. Melanie L

    Melanie L edited the books with additional background information of In the Garden of Beasts Thursday, October 6, 2011.

    • Added Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America Erik Larson used to focus on his particular parcel of ground.
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  8. Melanie L

    Melanie L edited the books with additional background information of In the Garden of Beasts Thursday, October 6, 2011.

    • Added The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America - -The Stalin Era Erik Larson used to focus on his particular parcel of ground.
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  9. Melanie L

    Melanie L edited the books with additional background information of In the Garden of Beasts Thursday, October 6, 2011.

    • Added Resisting Hitler: Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra Erik Larson used to focus on his particular parcel of ground.
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  10. Melanie L

    Melanie L edited the books with additional background information of In the Garden of Beasts Thursday, October 6, 2011.

    • Added The Third Reich at War: 1939-1945 Erik Larson mentions this must be read. It deepened his spiritual malasise, not because of the sheer volume involved but because of the horrors revealed.
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