I am sure that this book must have been discussed elsewhere. If found reference to it in several other threads, but could not find a discussion of the book itself.
I found it tough reading. Its seems that the discovery and recovery of the Romanov bones was handled just as incompetently and as badly as the murder and burial were.
I got lost in the infighting among the scientists. It would seem that professional egotism was more important that finding out the truth!!
And the whole trial to get the tissue samples of AA and have them checked by DNA experts was an exercise in futility through the cumbersome judicial system that we have here in the US. No wonder Shakespeare said "First we kill all the lawyers". (Please all of you lawyer types out these, don't kill the messenger or the quoter)
I am almost through the book now and am into the section where people are beginning to espouse conspiracy theories. How hard it must have been from them to have been "hoodwinked" and yet still look to find a reason to believe.
What a sad part of the Romanov history. The finding of the bones and the mishandling of them. Then the difference of opinion of who it was who was not in the grave.
What I felt most deeply was some of the explanations of the angle of the bullets and what was done to the bodies. Before, during and after the burials. Why burn their clothing? It just hurts so much to imagine what horrors were perpetrated on that night.
If there is another thread about this book, please someone, join this to it. I just couldn't find anything even with "search".
