Vintage Books | ISBN:0679756868 | File Type: PDF, 512 pages | File size: 56.Mb | Apr. 25th, 1995
German History: The Fate of Europe s Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award The cast of characters includes Hitler and Goering Gertrude Stein and Marc Chagall not to mention works by artists from Leonardo da Vinci to ablo icasso And the story told in this superbly researched and suspensef book is that of the Third Reich s war on European cture and the Allies desperate effort to preserve it From the Nazi purges of Degenerate Art and Goering s shopping sprees in occupied aris to the perilous journey of the Mona Lisa from aris and the painstaking reclamation of the priceless treasures of liberated Italy The Rape of Europa is a sweeping narrative of greed philistinism and heroism that combines superlative scholarship with a compelling drama Nicholas knows the art world as well as any military historian knows his battlefield Her work deserves the widest reading New York Times Book Review
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