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Saving Italy: The Race To Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis
By Edsel, Robert M.
- ISBN
- 9780393082418
- Publisher
- Norton
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Reviewed on June 1, 2013 | Social Sciences
The victim of bombing, looting, and neglect, Italy both during and after the Allied invasion of World War II was a dangerous place for works of art and architecture. Members of a small Allied unit, the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Program (members were later nicknamed the "Monuments Men"), worked to save whatever they could even as the war raged around them. Edsel (The Monuments Men) concentrates on the work of these men as they ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
