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The Amber Room: The Untold Story of the Greatest Hoax of the Twentieth Century
Catherine Scott-Clark, Adrian Levy, 2004. Atlantic Books, London (US edition Walker, "The Fate of the World's Greatest Lost Treasure").
The one archive-based investigation. Using Anatoly Kuchumov's private papers in the Central State Archive of Literature and Art, Alexander Brusov's 1945 report, Stasi files and interviews, it concludes that the room burned in Königsberg Castle between 9 and 11 April 1945 and that the Soviet search was kept up for political reasons.
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The standard account of the archival record and the destruction reading; cited here through its Guardian extract and summaries.
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Scott-Clark, C., & Levy, A. (2004). The Amber Room: The Untold Story of the Greatest Hoax of the Twentieth Century. Atlantic Books, London (US edition Walker, "The Fate of the World's Greatest Lost Treasure"). https://kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/adrian-levy/the-amber-room-2
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Scott-Clark, Catherine and Adrian Levy. “The Amber Room: The Untold Story of the Greatest Hoax of the Twentieth Century.” Atlantic Books, London (US edition Walker, "The Fate of the World's Greatest Lost Treasure") (2004).