The Rape of Europa The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War |
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| Author:
| Nicholas, Lynn H. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-679-75686-6 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 1995 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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| Imprint: | Knopf |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $45.00 |
Book Description:
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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award The real story behind the major motion picture
The Monuments Men.The cast of characters includes Hitler and Goering, Gertrude Stein and Marc Chagall--not to mention works by artists from Leonardo da Vinci to Pablo Picasso. And the story told in this superbly researched and suspenseful book is that of the Third Reich's war on European culture and the Allies' desperate effort to preserve it. From the...
More Description Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
The real story behind the major motion picture The Monuments Men.The cast of characters includes Hitler and Goering, Gertrude Stein and Marc Chagall--not to mention works by artists from Leonardo da Vinci to Pablo Picasso. And the story told in this superbly researched and suspenseful book is that of the Third Reich's war on European culture and the Allies' desperate effort to preserve it.
From the Nazi purges of "Degenerate Art" and Goering's shopping sprees in occupied Paris to the perilous journey of the Mona Lisafrom Paris and the painstaking reclamation of the priceless treasures of liberated Italy, The Rape of Europais a sweeping narrative of greed, philistinism, and heroism that combines superlative scholarship with a compelling drama.