The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (896 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1599951509 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 512 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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Focusing on the eleven-month period between D-Day and V-E Day, this fascinating account follows six Monuments Men and their impossible mission to save the world's great art from the Nazis.. At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe. The Fuehrer had begun cataloguing the art he planned to collect as well as the art he would destroy: "degenerate" works he despised.In a race against time, behind enemy lines, often unarmed, a special force of American and British museum directors, curators, art historians, and others, called the Monuments Men, risked their lives scouring Europe to prevent the destruction of thousands of years of culture
. Settling in Florence seeing some of the great works, he wondered how all of the monuments and art treasures survived the devastation of World War II. Bret Witter cowrote the bestseller Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World (Grand Central, 2008). Robert also coproduced the related documentary film, The
If you are patient, you will find the treasure in this book If I had written this review when I was only 25% of the way through this book, I would have given it 2 stars. The beginning of the book can only be described as plodding and in my opinion was not very well constructed. However, I hung in there and the payoff came in the remainder . Interesting Read Jean A few years ago, on a trip to St. Louis, Missouri and I toured their well-known art museum. I noted a number of paintings on loan by a Jewish family that stated the paintings were returned to the family by the Monument Men. I said to myself I need to read the book. Finally, I just. David I. Williams said A story that we all should read. One of the most enjoyable aspects to the study of history is always finding new stories. Even when you think you know a lot about a field you find something new and enjoyable. That one of the many reasons that I enjoyed Monuments Men so much. Robert Edsel has provided us with a lo
Their task was to save and preserve what they could of Europe's great art, and they were called the Monuments Men. From Publishers Weekly WWII was the most destructive war in history and caused the greatest dislocation of cultural artifacts. . In southern Germany alone, over a thousand caches emerged, containing everything from church bells to insect collections. The story is both engaging and inspiring. In the midst of a total war, armies systematically sought to mitigate cultural loss. 3)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Most had been stolen by the Nazis. The main burden fell to a few hundred men and women, curators and archivists, artists and art historians from 13 nations. Hundreds of thousands of items remain missing. He and Witte