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The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War

The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War - Paperback

by Lynn H. Nicholas
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Availability:In StockContributor:Lynn H. NicholasPublish date:1995-04-25Pages:512
Languages:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780679756866ISBN-10:679756868UPC:9780679756866Book Category:Art, HistoryBook Subcategory:European, Europe, HistoryBook Topic:Germany, Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)Size:8.06 x 5.17 x 1.01 inchesWeight:1.09Product ID:SC26CK9H64
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award

The real story behind the major motion picture The Monuments Men. The cast of characters includes Hitler and Goering, Gertrude Stein and Marc Chagall--not to mention works by artists from Leonardo da Vinci to Pablo Picasso. And the story told in this superbly researched and suspenseful book is that of the Third Reich's war on European culture and the Allies' desperate effort to preserve it.

From the Nazi purges of "Degenerate Art" and Goering's shopping sprees in occupied Paris to the perilous journey of the Mona Lisa from Paris 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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780679756866ISBN-10:679756868UPC:9780679756866Book Category:Art, HistoryBook Subcategory:European, Europe, HistoryBook Topic:Germany, Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)Size:8.06 x 5.17 x 1.01 inchesWeight:1.09Product ID:SC26CK9H64

Lynn H. Nicholas was born in New London. Connecticut. She was educated in the United States, England, and Spain, and received her B.A. from Oxford University. After her return to the United States she worked for several years at the National Gallery of Art. While living in Belgium in the early 1980s, she began research for this book, her first. Ms. Nicholas and her husband live in Washington, D.C.


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