Brandon Vance Vance থেকে 242 95 Svensköp, Sweden থেকে 242 95 Svensköp, Sweden

Eric Larson is a master at weaving together two seemingly unrelated historical accounts into something that reads like a novel. Which makes we wonder why he didn't do that here. I guess you could consider that this is both the story of Dodd, an ambassador to Germany during the rise of Hitler, and his daughter Martha, his twenty-something rebellious daughter. I kinda missed the format he followed in Devil and the White City and Thunderstruck. But, that's my only complaint and it's a minor one at that, something that hit me as I was putting the book on the shelf. It's amazing to think how history could have been different if we coulda, woulda, shoulda. This is the story of a monster in the making, how Hitler terrorized everyone around him. If things were different, if Dodd was a bit more forceful, or if the U.S. wasn't worried about recovering its debt from Germany, or if those in Washington didn't spend their time plotting against Dodd and instead listened to the correspondence he sent, would the holocaust have happened? Could it have been prevented if someone had stopped him? Or, was that country spiraling downward no matter who was at the helm?