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The book thieves : the Nazi looting of Europe's libraries and the race to return a literary inheritance

"While the Nazi party was being condemned by much of the world for burning books, they were already hard at work perpetrating an even greater literary crime. Through extensive new research that included records saved by the Monuments Men themselves--Anders Rydell tells the untold story of Nazi...

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Main Author: Rydell, Anders (Author, VerfasserIn)
Other Authors: Koch, Henning (Translator, ÜbersetzerIn)
Document Type: Book
Language:English
Swedish
Published: New York, New York : Viking , [2017]
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Online Access:Inhaltsbeschreibung & Leseprobe
Author Notes:Anders Rydell ; translated by Henning Koch
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