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I Was Vermeer: The Forger who Swindled the Nazis
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Author:
Wynne, Frank
Narrator:
Burnip, Richard
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Oakhill Publishing Limited 2008
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Unabridged
ISBN:
9781846485022
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In 1945, a small-time Dutch art dealer was arrested for selling a forgery of a priceless national treasure - a painting by Vermeer - to Hitler's right-hand man. The charge was treason; the only possible sentence death. And yet Han van Meegeren languished in his dark prison cell, incapable of uttering the words that would set him free 'I am a forger'. This riveting account of greed, hubris, excess, treason and fine art is the story of a failed artist and the greatest forger of all time.

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Frank Wynne. (2008). I Was Vermeer: The Forger who Swindled the Nazis. Unabridged Oakhill Publishing Limited.

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Frank Wynne. 2008. I Was Vermeer: The Forger Who Swindled the Nazis. Oakhill Publishing Limited.

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Frank Wynne, I Was Vermeer: The Forger Who Swindled the Nazis. Oakhill Publishing Limited, 2008.

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Frank Wynne. I Was Vermeer: The Forger Who Swindled the Nazis. Unabridged Oakhill Publishing Limited, 2008.

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