I am currently reading "In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin" by Erik Lawson (along with a couple of books on primal/paleo eating).

This is a well written book and quite captivating. It is on the Dobbs family, Dobb was sent to Germany as the US Ambassador soon after Hitler rose to power. He originally took the position hoping to have time to work on a history of the southern US he had been trying to work on for years, but of course events in German changed that. He was not the usual pick for such a position as he wasn't one of the American privileged class.

Dobbs invited his grown children to go with he and his wife, and the author uses diaries of the family to reconstruct that first year. As you read this book, you begin to understand in part why the true nature of Hitler wasn't believed by outsiders for so long. There were all of the horror stories that started coming out when he and his party rose to power, but for visitors to Germany it all appeared to be just exaggeration as everything "appeared" to be the same. His daughter Martha took longer to understand the true nature of the Nazis and was caught up in it all.

I am still reading the book but I highly recommend it if you like to read history. I could easily stay up too late reading this, but the alarm goes off much too early Larson is such a good writer that I am going to see what else he may have written.