A veteran journalist, formerly with Newsweek, Mr Nagorski seems most interested in the stories of diplomats and fellow hacks.

作为《新闻周刊》的前资深记者，纳戈尔斯基似乎对外交官和雇佣文人的故事最感兴趣。

Andrew Nagorski has written an entertaining chronicle of the views of Americans in Germany during the interwar years until Japan attacked Pearl Harbour in 1941.

安德鲁·纳戈尔斯基写了一部有趣的编年史，内容是两次世界大战之间直到1941年日本袭击珍珠港期间在德的美国人的看法。

George Messersmith, a prescient American Consul General in Berlin, “made a habit of not allowing himself to be fooled by the Nazis, ” writes Mr Nagorski.

乔治·梅瑟史密斯是美国在柏林的总领事，颇有先见之明，纳戈尔斯基写道，乔治·梅瑟史密斯“习惯不让自己被纳粹愚弄”。