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I walked across the snowy plain of the Tiergarten—a smashed statue here, a newly planted sapling there; the Brandenburger Tor, with its red flag flapping against the blue winter sky; and on the horizon, the great ribs of a gutted railway station, like the skeleton of a whale. In the morning light it was all as raw and frank as the voice of history which tells you not to fool yourself; this can happen to any city, to anyone, to you.
    —Christopher Isherwood,
Down There on a Visit

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
    E RIK LARSON is the author of
The Devil in the White City
,
Thunderstruck
,
Isaac’s Storm
, and other works of nonfiction. He has written for a variety of national magazines and is a former staff writer for the
Wall Street Journal
and
Time
. He lives in Seattle with his wife, three daughters, and an old British sports car named Mrs. Peel.