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This historical facts are fascinating that this book talks about. I knew that hitler "collected" art from all across Europe abut I never knew that there were troops of people that tried to save and salvage those stolen pieces. I mean of course where were, it makes sense, but I guess I never thought about it and so those parts of the book were fascinating and interesting.
The problem is that the rest was just...not?
The writing was okay but rather boring and dry and it felt like a really hard task to read this book. And the author really enjoyed repeating some parts of the story. Over and over and over and over and over again. Which just completely goes on my nerves.
And while the author might have tried to make the characters have personalities, I think he tried to hard to keep the story real and with the facts and so some characters had actual character, but most felt like historical figures you read about in a history textbook. You know they were real people but you only know he basic facts so there is no emotional connected of real interest for those people.
So while the actual historical moments of having all those people having the sole purpose of saving priceless art that we can still go and see today is wondeful, the author sadly did not mange, at least to me, to actually bring those people alive and make the book an intersting read.
I think sometimes it is better to stray just a little from the actual facts and create a real character for a book instead of staying too true to the actual documents you have and make all characters dull and lifeless and uninteresting.
Overall?
Nice try, but sadly it didn't really work for me personally.
The problem is that the rest was just...not?
The writing was okay but rather boring and dry and it felt like a really hard task to read this book. And the author really enjoyed repeating some parts of the story. Over and over and over and over and over again. Which just completely goes on my nerves.
And while the author might have tried to make the characters have personalities, I think he tried to hard to keep the story real and with the facts and so some characters had actual character, but most felt like historical figures you read about in a history textbook. You know they were real people but you only know he basic facts so there is no emotional connected of real interest for those people.
So while the actual historical moments of having all those people having the sole purpose of saving priceless art that we can still go and see today is wondeful, the author sadly did not mange, at least to me, to actually bring those people alive and make the book an intersting read.
I think sometimes it is better to stray just a little from the actual facts and create a real character for a book instead of staying too true to the actual documents you have and make all characters dull and lifeless and uninteresting.
Overall?
Nice try, but sadly it didn't really work for me personally.