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    Hitler's Holy Relics: A True Story of Nazi Plunder and the Race to Recover the Crown Jewels of the Holy Roman Empire
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    Hitler's Holy Relics: A True Story of Nazi Plunder and the Race to Recover the Crown Jewels of the Holy Roman Empire
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    Hitler's Holy Relics: A True Story of Nazi Plunder and the Race to Recover the Crown Jewels of the Holy Roman Empire

    By Sidney Kirkpatrick

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    From Paris to Stalingrad, the Nazis systematically plundered all manner of art and antiquities. But the first and most valuable treasure they looted were the Crown Jewels of the Holy Roman Empire. This is the true-life Indiana Jones story of a college professor turned Army sleuth who foils a Nazi plot to preserve these cherished symbols of Hitler's Thousand Year Reich.

    Author Sidney Kirkpatrick draws on recently discovered and previously unpublished documents, including interrogation and intelligence reports, diaries and correspondence, as well as on interviews with all remaining living participants involved with the case, to re-create this thrilling true-life story.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster UK
    Release dateMay 26, 2011
    ISBN9781849832083
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    Sidney Kirkpatrick

    Sidney Kirkpatrick is an award-winning filmmaker and international bestselling author. His critically acclaimed non-fiction books include A Cast of Killers, Turning the Tide, Lords of Sipan, Edgar Cayce: An American Prophet, and The Revenge of Thomas Eakins. His documentary film, My Father the President, about Theodore Roosevelt as seen through the eyes of his daughter, Ethel Roosevelt Derby, was a winner at the American Film Festival. HBO, the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, and A&E have all featured his work. Biographical profiles of Kirkpatrick have appeared in The New York Times, Time, The New Yorker, and Playboy. He is a graduate of Hampshire College and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He lives in Stony Brook, New York.

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    • 4/5
      If you crossed the Da Vinci Code with real life Nazi conspiracies, you'd get a story like this.A look at the history of the traditions that Hitler and his men claimed to succeed, told through the personal story and investigations of one U.S.-German army lieutenant who was an expert in German art history.
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      I've never read Dan Brown but I'm guessing that "Hitler's Holy Relics" is the type of book he'll read before knocking off another best selling tome. "Hitler's Holy Relics" covers the end of World War II when a team of allied officials led by scholar Walter Horn began searching for relics stolen by the Nazis, they realise that some relics were hidden so the upcoming Fourth Reich could use them. Some good detective work later, (Spoiler) we can rest assured that any Fourth Reich would need to come to fruition without Charlemagne's Imperial Regalia.A well-written piece on one of the lesser known moments of World War II.