yeah, it's about the American ambassador to Germany just before the war broke out.
some politics - he wasn't well liked as an appointee - some family drama - he brought his wife and adult children to europe with him, and lots of history
i got a really interesting perspective on how hitler sort of slunk to power while people were living in a fog i guess.. for lack of a better word.
and you also get some very interesting information about incidents that began to occur that in hindsight, are obvious clues to what was coming.
because the history i know has been so focused on the conflicts and aftermath, i've gotten very little about what comes first and for that reason, i loved it.
immediately after that book, i read Dead Wake, also by Erik Larson about the last crossing of the lusitania
again, picked up all this knowledge about stuff i had no clue about because once again, the book is focusing on thing that happened prior to US involvement in the war.