Book Review: The Book Thieves by Anders Rydell
4 Stars , Latest Posts , Non-Fiction / March 13, 2017

This is a two part story, the first one, as the name of the book suggests, is the story of the Nazis trying to control people’s beliefs via literature, punishment and spectacles of burning books symbolizing “wrong” ideology. The second part is the painstaking cataloging of millions of books, returning what can be returned (through notes, plates and other identifying marks).

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