Volume 44, Number 15 · October 9, 1997
Among the Missing
By Gordon A. Craig
The Spoils of War: World War II and Its Aftermath: The Loss, Reappearance, and Recovery of Cultural Property
edited by Elizabeth Simpson
Abrams/Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, 336 pp., $49.50
The Lost Museum: The Nazi Conspiracy to Steal the World's Greatest Works of Art
by Hector Feliciano
BasicBooks, 278 pp., $27.50
Spoliation has been the concomitant of war since earliest times. It was standard practice long before
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