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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 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. "Nicholas knows the art world as well as any military historian knows his battlefield.... Her work deserves the widest reading."--New York Times Book ReviewFrom the Trade Paperback edition.
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Art and the war, Art thefts, Art treasures in war, Cultural policy, Cultural property, Destruction and pillage, History, Lost works of art, Modern Art, Nonfiction, Politics and government,, World War 1939-1945, World War, 1939-1945, art, art theft, empires, plunder, Kunstraub, Art et guerre, Tweede Wereldoorlog, Kunstbeleid, Guerre mondiale (1914-1918), Vol, Derde Rijk, Weltkrieg (1939-1945), Objets d'art, Politique et gouvernement, Guerre mondiale (1939-1945), Trésors artistiques durant la guerre, Kunstroof, Politics and government, Weltkrieg, Allied Forces. Supreme Headquarters. Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section, Allied Forces, BMBF-Statusseminar gnd, Germany, politics and government, 1933-1945, World war, 1939-1945, art and the war, Vol d'objets d'art, Politique culturelle, Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945, Kunstvoorwerpen, Oorlogsbuit, Oorlogsschade, Germany, World War II, Art, Cultural heritage, RestitutionPlaces
Berlin, Crakow, Europe, Florence, France, Germany, Italy, Monte Cassino, Moscow, Munich, Paris, Pisa, Siberia, WarsawTimes
1933-1945, 1939-1945, 20th centuryShowing 6 featured editions. View all 6 editions?
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A discussion on the theft and collection of great European art in World War 2.
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