The Amber Room: The True Story of the World's Greatest Lost Art Treasure

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Summary: Riveting
Review: I bought this book because I knew absolutely nothing about the subject (though I consider myself fairly well-educated, despite being from Texas). I took it to Mexico with me and read it in just a couple of days on the beach. I could hardly put it down. Last weekend, I was privileged to go to the Book Expo meeting in Chicago, where I had the pleasure of meeting the authors. They have done a superb job of covering this complex story. It's easily the best thriller I have read in years. And I learned quite a lot about Russian and Soviet politics through the centuries as well.

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Summary: Great book
Review: This exciting work is my favorite book on the subject of The Amber Room. The research and writing are well-thought out!

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Summary: Better than any fiction novel you'll ever read.
Review: Who needs fiction when hisory can give us stories like this! The Amber room was in the Catherine Palace in Pushkin, outside of Leningrad (today's St. Petersburg). The room was lined with amber panels that Frederick I of Prussia gave to Peter the Great in 1717. The panels vanished when the Nazis invaded in 1941 and have never been seen again. The two journalist writers do a great job of covering the history of the room and the consperacy theories that surround. This is a much better read then Da Vinci code and this story is real. The only downfall is there is no satisfying conclusion to this book as the Amber room is still missing! If you insist on fiction may I recomend "A Tourist in the Yucatan" an interesting thriller.