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Atlantic Books, London, 2004. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Catherine Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy's revelatory and startling book solves definitively a fifty-year mystery about the fate of the legendary Amber Room. The history of art has produced few works as ambitious and as valuable as the Amber Room. Famous throughout Europe as 'the eighth wonder of the world', its vast and intricately worked amber panels were sent in 1717 by Frederick I of Prussia as a gift to Peter the Great of Russia, and soon became a symbol of Russia's imperial might. For over two hundred years the room remained in its Russian palace, but with the outbreak of the Second World War, Hitler laid claim to it as a showpiece for the Third Reich. When the Nazis swept into Leningrad, it was wrenched from the walls, packed into crates and disappeared from view, never to be seen again. In a gripping climax that is a triumph of detection and narrative journalism, The Amber Room shows incontrovertibly what really…
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- Title The Amber Room
- Author Catherine Levy Adrian; Scott-Clark
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- Edition First Edition
- Publisher Atlantic Books, London
- Date 2004
- ISBN 9781843543404
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The Amber Room : The Untold Story of the Greatest Hoax of the Twentieth Century
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