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The Rape of Europa:
The Fate of Lynn H. Nicholas |
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The cast of characters
includes Adolf Hitler and Hermann 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' 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 (while bridges exploded in its wake) 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 the breakneck pace of
a thriller. |
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