The monuments men
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"In a race against time, a group 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 period between D-Day and V-E Day, this acclaimed book follows six Monument Men on their impossible mission to save the world's great art from the Nazis."--
This account presents the story of a special force of American and British curators, art historians, and other experts who risked their lives to prevent the destruction of cultural artifacts and structures during World War II.
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Meh. This was a bit of a slog (it almost became “quit before finishing” book). Too much jumping around, and a prose style just unriveting enough to make it easy to put the book down to go do something else. But wow, the Nazis - just when you think you know how utterly beyond any sort of decency they were, they surprise you by going EVEN FURTHER.
