The Amber Room

Just finished reading The Amber Room: The Fate of the World's Greatest Lost Treasure by Catherine Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy. Fascinating book, even though there is no final definitive resolution to the mystery. Their proposed solution, while plausable, couldn't be confirmed.

It was very interesting how the story of the Amber Room, which was stolen by the Nazis during WWII, only to disappear at the end of the war, was so wrapped up in post-war and Cold War politics.

I could never do the kind of research that the authors did - working with layers upon layers of Russian and German bureaucracy where it was often only by working indirectly through others who had the right connections that they could get access to relevent material. Waiting weeks for approval to see material, only to be told that if they didn't look at it immediately upon being granted permission, they would never be able to see it. The frustration levels must have been staggering.