My copy of the book arrived just before Christmas, and I have been reading it, although I have not finished the book yet. I find it a really readable book, the style is very easy. ( In Dutch we have the expression, 'it reads like a train', and this is such a book) Even my mum, who does not read in English looked through the book, read a few bits here and there and said 'I think even I can read this book and understand it'. So my compliments to the writers for their easy and well-readable style.
I am now reading the part about Anna Anderson and I am fascinated by the fact how facts were changed, how people told her things and gave her photographs and later people thought she could really remember things and people.
What a horrible situation it must have been for the family. Not knowing for sure what happened, hoping, against better judgement perhaps, that one of the family survived, this woman and all that does not add up, and always the hope that maybe, maybe, it might be true.
It seems very sad that this woman was so caught up in the fact that she was Anastasia. I do not know if she actually believed it herself, or that she said it and than it spiralled out of control and she could not stop anymore. I do not know what much about her, I am very new to reading about the Romanovs and all the things related to them, but I think when I finished this book, I will know more about AA and her motives.
greetings, Bettina