Book Review: The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe’s Libraries by Anders Rydell

Patrick Spedding

Book Review: The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe’s Libraries by Anders Rydell

Patrick Spedding

Literary Studies

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A review of Anders Rydell’s The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe’s Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance (2017), a monograph that examines the fate of European libraries during the Second World War.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	190–193
Number of pages	3
Journal	Script & Print: Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand
Volume	43
Issue number	4
Publication status	Published - 2019

Keywords

Book History
Library History
Restitution
Second World War
Literary studies

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Book Review: The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe’s Libraries by Anders Rydell

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