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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.
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.
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“My husband read this book and told me about it as he was reading it. It is the true story of a group of men who were charged with protecting, recovering, and restoring, as best they could, the architecture and art of Europe during and after WWII. The looting and destruction of art and architecture robs a people of their culture, so the Nazis purposefully set out to destroy the works of those peoples they felt were inferior (Poles, Jews, etc.). Goering and Hitler were obsessed with obtaining as much as they could; Goering for himself and Hitler for himself and a gallery he wanted to furnish after the war. The personal stories of the men who were in charge of the mission and the obstacles they faced made an intriguing tale. Having been to many of the sites and having seen the works described made the book more of a delight to me.”
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Deborah (4 out of 5 stars)
