The Monuments Men - Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History

The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History

✍ Edsel, Robert M; Witter, Bret 📂 Fiction 📅 2009 🏛 Center Street 🌐 English ⚖ 682 KB

### From Publishers Weekly WWII was the most destructive war in history and caused the greatest dislocation of cultural artifacts. Hundreds of thousands of items remain missing. The main burden fell to a few hundred men and women, curators and archivists, artists and art historians from 13 nations.

The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History

✍ Robert M. Edsel 📂 Fiction 📅 2009 🏛 Center Street 🌐 English ⚖ 869 KB 👁 1 views

### From Publishers Weekly WWII was the most destructive war in history and caused the greatest dislocation of cultural artifacts. Hundreds of thousands of items remain missing. The main burden fell to a few hundred men and women, curators and archivists, artists and art historians from 13 nations.

The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History

✍ Robert M. Edsel 📂 Fiction 📅 2009 🏛 Center Street 🌐 English ⚖ 870 KB

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