The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History by Edsel, Robert M.

The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781599951492)

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The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History by Edsel, Robert M.

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

$32.50
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History by Edsel, Robert M.

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

$32.50
Format: Hardcover
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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 Momuments 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.

Author: Robert M. Edsel
ISBN-10: 1599951495
ISBN-13: 9781599951492
Publisher: Center Street
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2009
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.40w x 1.70d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 9
Point Value: 25
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 161909 / Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/22/2009 pg. 40
Booklist 09/01/2009 pg. 27
Library Journal 10/15/2009 pg. 92
BookPage 09/01/2009
By Robert M. Edsel
By Robert M. Edsel
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Robert M. Edsel is the Founder and President of the Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art, a not-for-profit entity that received the National Humanities Medal, the highest honor given in the United States for work in the humanities field. He also serves as a Trustee at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans. He lives in Dallas.

Bret Witter cowrote the bestseller Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World (Grand Central). He lives in Louisville, KY.

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