This is a very well written book, it does a great job of allowing you to follow the train of events and understand who the players were, even though it was easiest to follow when talking about well known families (ie: the Rothschilds) it also follows in how devastated the collections were. With the Rothschilds being kept mainly together whereas various dealers had degenerate collections thrown to the wind.
The only issue I had, was it spoke about researching an overall plan but mainly spoke only to the art theft in Paris, specifying that would have been nice, but didn't really change how I viewed the book.
The epilogue was honestly the best part of the book, and was heartbreaking, as he goes through explaining how to identify the paintings is MRA and how little would be needed to fix some of these wrongs and even looking into why the museums would be hesitant to do so. I almost wish more of the book had focused on this, even if it is not quite in the scope of his thesis.
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