{"product_id":"the-amber-room-the-controversial-truth-about-the-greatest-hoax-of-the-twentieth-century-9781843540908","title":"The Amber Room : The Controversial Truth About the Greatest Hoax of the Twentieth Century","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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 Russias 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. Catherine Scott-Clark and Andrian Levy have gone further along on the trail of this great  lost treasure than anyone before them to unravel the jumble of evidence surrounding its fate. It is a search that catapulted them across eastern Europe and into the menacing world of espionage and counter-espionage. In the archives in St Petersburg and Berlin  amid boxes of hitherto unseen diaries  letters and classified reports  they uncovered for the first time an astounding conspiracy to hide the truth. In a gripping climax that is a triumph of detection and narrative journalism  The Amber Room shows incontrovertibly what really happened to the most valuable lost artwork in the world. The hoax it reveals will change our understanding of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45650499141685,"sku":"ByrdShop_1843540908","price":66.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781843540908.jpg?v=1781797869","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-amber-room-the-controversial-truth-about-the-greatest-hoax-of-the-twentieth-century-9781843540908","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}