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The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
Was R298.95Now R239.16(eB 2392)
Delivery time: Usually within 10 working days. Country: United States of AmericaFormat: Audio CD
Narrator: Jeremy DavidsonPublisher: Macmillan AudioISBN: 9781427206916 Publication date: September 2009 Length: 147mm Width: 135mm Thickness: 20mm Weight: 168g Edition: abridged edition
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
Author: Bret Witter; Robert Edsel
Was R298.95 Now R239.16
Perhaps the last major World War II story that hasn't been told, The Monuments Me follows eight key personalities and their impossible mission to save the world's great art and cultural treasures from the Nazis. 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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