THE NEW YORKER
[A] riveting portrait of Gurlitt, who detested the Nazis, and stole from them, but did their bidding in the name of ‘saving modern art’
USA TODAY
“Susan Ronald tells the back story of what may be the most startling art-world bust in modern history.”
AMANDA FOREMAN
“Absolutely gripping from start to finish. Susan Ronald holds nothing back as she lays bare in merciless detail the cunning, greed and hypocrisy that allowed Hitler’s willing accomplices, like the notorious Hildebrand Gurlitt, to feed off human misery to their heart’s content. Everyone should read this book.”
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
“Ronald situates Gurlitt’s life and career amid the turmoil of Weimar Germany and then the evolution of Nazi art-looting campaigns from the late 1930s to the end of World War II, [adding] many new details about Gurlitt’s dealings.”