By Robert M. Edsel
ISBN-10: 1599951509
ISBN-13: 9781599951508
Whilst Adolf Hitler used to be trying to take over the western global, his armies have been methodically looking and hoarding the best paintings treasures in Europe. The Fuehrer had began cataloguing the paintings he deliberate to assemble in addition to the paintings he could ruin: "degenerate" works he despised.
In a race opposed to time, at the back of enemy strains, frequently unarmed, a distinct strength of American and British museum administrators, curators, artwork historians, and others, known as the Monuments males, risked their lives scouring Europe to avoid the destruction of millions of years of tradition.
Focusing at the eleven-month interval among D-Day and V-E Day, this interesting account follows six Monuments males and their very unlikely challenge to save lots of the world's nice paintings from the Nazis.