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The Amber Room
What became of Russia's greatest treasure...?
September 12th 1941 and the German army is at the gates of Pushkin,
twenty five kilometres south of Leningrad. Behind the shutters of the
Catherine Palace is the fabled Amber Room. Carved from six tons of
Baltic amber for the Emperor of Prussia’s palace in Königsberg and
presented to Tsar Peter the Great in 1716, it is one of Russia’s most
prized possessions and the Germans want it back.
The palace custodians had worked night and day in their desperate efforts
to remove and conceal the two hundred delicately carved panels, but time
was not on their side. All too soon the Germans had found every last
fragment and the Amber Room was on its way back to Königsberg.
Despite countless rumours, it has never been seen again.
Or has it?
When in 2001 ex-army officer and freelance journalist Miles Maltby
joins a run-of-the-mill press trip to the ski resort of Eigerhubel in the
Swiss Alps, he stumbles onto an extraordinary story, and sets off on a
journey of high adventure through Germany and Holland to London,
Copenhagen, Latvia and Estonia and back again to Switzerland, and on
the way unravels one of the greatest mysteries of the Second World War.
‘A straightforward, exciting and effective thriller...this book is thoroughly
recommended.’ Douglas Hurd, Daily Telegraph
'Matthew plots cunningly and writes formidably, supplying a great
swerving ski-run for one’s money.’ John Coleman, Sunday Times.
‘A heady, action-packed thriller.’ Julia Langdon, Glasgow Herald.
‘Rousingly done, Buchanish adventure.’ Philip Oakes, Literary Review.
‘This Amber is pure nectar.’ Peter Grosvenor, Daily Express.
September 12th 1941 and the German army is at the gates of Pushkin,
twenty five kilometres south of Leningrad. Behind the shutters of the
Catherine Palace is the fabled Amber Room. Carved from six tons of
Baltic amber for the Emperor of Prussia’s palace in Königsberg and
presented to Tsar Peter the Great in 1716, it is one of Russia’s most
prized possessions and the Germans want it back.
The palace custodians had worked night and day in their desperate efforts
to remove and conceal the two hundred delicately carved panels, but time
was not on their side. All too soon the Germans had found every last
fragment and the Amber Room was on its way back to Königsberg.
Despite countless rumours, it has never been seen again.
Or has it?
When in 2001 ex-army officer and freelance journalist Miles Maltby
joins a run-of-the-mill press trip to the ski resort of Eigerhubel in the
Swiss Alps, he stumbles onto an extraordinary story, and sets off on a
journey of high adventure through Germany and Holland to London,
Copenhagen, Latvia and Estonia and back again to Switzerland, and on
the way unravels one of the greatest mysteries of the Second World War.
‘A straightforward, exciting and effective thriller...this book is thoroughly
recommended.’ Douglas Hurd, Daily Telegraph
'Matthew plots cunningly and writes formidably, supplying a great
swerving ski-run for one’s money.’ John Coleman, Sunday Times.
‘A heady, action-packed thriller.’ Julia Langdon, Glasgow Herald.
‘Rousingly done, Buchanish adventure.’ Philip Oakes, Literary Review.
‘This Amber is pure nectar.’ Peter Grosvenor, Daily Express.
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Published January 1, 1995
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