Year of release: 2018Author: Andres RiedelTranslator: Zaur MamedyarovAvailability of illustrations: No illustrationsGenre: War crimesPublisher: Ripol-ClassicISBN: 978-5-386-10792-5Format: PDFQuality: Scanned pages + OCRNumber of pages: 448Scanned by: meDescription: Book thieves - bestselling book by Swedish historian Andres Riedel in 2017. Full title: “Book Thieves. How the Nazis looted European libraries and how the literary heritage was returned home. The book was translated into 17 languages, including Russian (at the end of 2018). The book spent more than 10 weeks on Amazon's top list (in the historical books category), was shortlisted for the 2017 Kirkus magazine award for best non-fiction book (USA), and in 2018 received the Bengt Janson Memorial Foundation Award (Sweden). The book traces the history of Nazi looting of books and archives throughout Europe. The author notes that the reason the Nazis looted Jewish, dissident and Masonic books was to steal their history, their memories and, ultimately, their humanity. The book is divided into three parts: the domestic theft of books by the Nazis, the international looting of German (Third Reich)-occupied territories, and the current state of book and archive restitution.