Creator: Larson, Erik, 1954- (Keywords)

Full of glamour, mystery, and real-life suspense, 'Dead Wake' captures the sheer drama and emotional power of a disaster that helped place America on the road to war.

Berlin, 1933. William E. Dodd is a mild-mannered academic from Chicago who becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany. This book tells the true story of love, intrigue and emerging terror at the American embassy in Berlin during the tumultuous 12 months that witnessed Hitler's rise to...