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Pros
A very interesting insight on germany during the years leading up to wwii. I was also struck by the coincidence that the u. S. About * and his third *. A world war is something worthy to pay attention to and never forget,less we find ourselves being d... Read More
William dodd was appointed us ambassador to germany in 1933. Follows the life of the dodd family as they adjust to diplomatic life in berlin. Also follows the daughter of the ambassador as she is pursued by *'s.
Cons
"this book is boring. Not terrible, just dull and tedious. A really dull thriller thrown together by a fantastic writer erik larson" "i was let down. Not one of erik larson's best---that's for sure.
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Quality
My 3rd book by eric larsonhe’s an amazing authorhistoricalnovelist in my opinion quality productprompt shipping
” it really is incredible and on a certain level impressive
She was so vapid and narcissistic and easily manipulated
After detailed and intriguing day by day account of dodds’ first year we skip over these last 3 years as if nothing of interest happened
Price
If you havent tried audible its worth the money
“they saw his complaints about costs as offensive tedious and confounding” larson says
Shipping
Book was new received in a timely manner
In the months when the dodd’s arrived “nazi attacks on the jews were like summer thunderstorms that came and went quickly leavi... Read More
Dodd also shipped over his run down oldsmobile from chicago to serve as his official transportation around berlin
It took a little time to get but overall i was pleased with my purchase
Packaging/appearance
His blue blooded deputies at the embassy – all members of the selfproclaimed “pretty good club” – grimaced at the “small town a... Read More
Competitiveness
Nearly a third—just over 160000—lived in berlin alone but they constituted less than 4 percent of the city’s overall population of 4
By comparison almost twenty percent of new york city is jewish today
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american, nazi and first. - Our AI detects a high amount of irrelevant reviews for this listing. A number of the reviews included in this product may belong to other variations, editions or versions that may not be representative of the current product being sold.
- Our engine has detected that Amazon has altered, modified or removed reviews from this listing. We approximate total reviews altered up to 6.
- Previous analysis of this listing was an D grade.
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- Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 52.3% of the reviews are reliable.
- This product had a total of 15,406 reviews as of our last analysis date on Mar 8 2024.
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Did not care for many of the characters and not just the nazi’s
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The daughter was a piece of work she never met a man she wouldn’t sleep with apparently
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A number of reviewers apparently didnt realize that this book is history not a novel
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Only a very bad novelist would dream up the cast of characters who parade through this story
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Perhaps there was something wrong with the electronic version i read i generally prefer the oldfashioned way of reading but the book does not conclude with what strikes me as an important detail ambassador dodds daughter who at first admired the nazis and who seemed hellbent on bedding everyone in sight followed her soviet lover into a career of spying for the ussr a job that included betraying her own father by leaking privileged information to the russians
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She would eventually marry a wealthy fellow american and draw him into espionage and they finally would be convicted in absentia by a u
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Court eventually dying in exile
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I raced through it to get to the ending
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