Anders Rydel­lis a jour­nal­ist, edi­tor, and author of non­fic­tion. As the Head of Cul­ture at a major Swedish media group, Rydell directs the cov­er­age of arts and cul­ture in 14 news­pa­pers. His two books on the Nazis, The Book Theives and The Loot­ers, have been trans­lat­ed into 16 lan­guages. The Book Thieves is his first work pub­lished in English.