The Amber Room: The World's Most Valuable Missing Object

<p>Six tonnes of amber, backed with gold leaf and mirrors — a room that glowed like the inside of a jewel, called the eighth wonder of the world. In nineteen forty-one, German soldiers stripped it from the wall in thirty-six hours, crated it, and shipped it west. And then it vanished from the face of the Earth.</p><p>August Mercer follows eighty years of obsessive searching — the mines, the lakes, the shipwrecks, the curse — and asks whether the treasure everyone is hunting burned in nineteen forty-five. This is Six Feet of History — five minutes of the past they'd rather you forget.</p>