With brilliantly vivid irony, a mosaic of voices tells the true story of Switzerland's most notorious bank robbers: Kurt Sandweg and Waldemar Velte. As 1933 draws to a close, the pair arrive in Basel from Wuppertal, Germany. Rebels on the run, they are searching for an escape from the confines of a [...]
Part travelogue, part historical study, part critique, this compelling study raises questions about the nature of scholarship, and about the complex issues of how-and in particular where-the treasures of Antiquity are best preserved and displayed.[...]