2009, ISBN: 9781848091023

Sydney: Silhouette Books Australia, 1999. Book. Good +. Mass Market Paperback. First Australian Pbk Edition. G+, Edgewear, creases, indentations, dealer stamp, ink price, remainder stripe… Plus…

Sydney: Silhouette Books Australia, 1999. Book. Good +. Mass Market Paperback. First Australian Pbk Edition. G+, Edgewear, creases, indentations, dealer stamp, ink price, remainder stripe, browning. Romance. Expanded condition report/photo on request.., Silhouette Books Australia, 1999, 2.5, Preface Publishing. Very Good. 6.02 x 1.46 x 9.13 inches. Paperback. 2009. 496 pages. <br>From 1942 to 1951, 365 men and women from thirteen Allied nations served as the men and women of the Monuments, Fin e Arts & Archives section (MFAA) of the Allied armed forces, the eyes, ears and hands of the first and most ambitious effort in hi story to preserve the world's cultural heritage in times of war. They were known simply as Monuments Men. But during the thick of the fighting in Europe, from D-Day to V-E Day, when Germany surre ndered, there were only 65 Monuments Men in the forward operating area. Sixty-five men to cover thousands of square miles, save hu ndreds of damaged buildings and find millions of cultural items b efore the Nazis could destroy them forever. The Monuments Men is the story of seven of these men. Six of them were in the forward operating theatre: America's top art conservator; an up-and-comin g young museum curator; a sculptor; a modestly successful portrai t painter; a straight-arrow architect and a highly cultured, open ly gay infantry private with no prior knowledge of or appreciatio n for art, but first-hand experience as a victim of the Nazi regi me.They built their own treasure maps from scraps and hints: the diary of a Louvre curator who secretly tracked Nazi plunder throu gh the Paris rail yards; records recovered from bombed out cathed rals and museums; overheard conversations and behind-enemy-lines interviews; a tip from a dentist while getting a root canal. They started off moving in different directions, but ended up heading for the same place at the same time: the Alps near the German-Au strian-Italian border in the last two weeks of the war, where the great treasure caches of the Nazis were stored: the artwork of P aris, stolen mostly from Jewish collectors and dealers; masterwor ks from the museums of Naples and Florence; and the greatest priz e of all, Hitler's personal hoard of masterpieces, looted from th e most important art collections and museums in Europe and hidden deep within a working salt mine - a mine the Nazis had every int ention of destroying before it fell into Allied hands. How does t he Greatest Treasure Hunt in History end? As is often the case, h istory is often more extraordinary than fiction. ., Preface Publishing, 2009, 3<

2009, ISBN: 9781848091023

Preface Publishing. Very Good. 6.02 x 1.46 x 9.13 inches. Paperback. 2009. 496 pages. <br>From 1942 to 1951, 365 men and women from thirteen Allied nations served as the men and wo… Plus…

Preface Publishing. Very Good. 6.02 x 1.46 x 9.13 inches. Paperback. 2009. 496 pages. <br>From 1942 to 1951, 365 men and women from thirteen Allied nations served as the men and women of the Monuments, Fin e Arts & Archives section (MFAA) of the Allied armed forces, the eyes, ears and hands of the first and most ambitious effort in hi story to preserve the world's cultural heritage in times of war. They were known simply as Monuments Men. But during the thick of the fighting in Europe, from D-Day to V-E Day, when Germany surre ndered, there were only 65 Monuments Men in the forward operating area. Sixty-five men to cover thousands of square miles, save hu ndreds of damaged buildings and find millions of cultural items b efore the Nazis could destroy them forever. The Monuments Men is the story of seven of these men. Six of them were in the forward operating theatre: America's top art conservator; an up-and-comin g young museum curator; a sculptor; a modestly successful portrai t painter; a straight-arrow architect and a highly cultured, open ly gay infantry private with no prior knowledge of or appreciatio n for art, but first-hand experience as a victim of the Nazi regi me.They built their own treasure maps from scraps and hints: the diary of a Louvre curator who secretly tracked Nazi plunder throu gh the Paris rail yards; records recovered from bombed out cathed rals and museums; overheard conversations and behind-enemy-lines interviews; a tip from a dentist while getting a root canal. They started off moving in different directions, but ended up heading for the same place at the same time: the Alps near the German-Au strian-Italian border in the last two weeks of the war, where the great treasure caches of the Nazis were stored: the artwork of P aris, stolen mostly from Jewish collectors and dealers; masterwor ks from the museums of Naples and Florence; and the greatest priz e of all, Hitler's personal hoard of masterpieces, looted from th e most important art collections and museums in Europe and hidden deep within a working salt mine - a mine the Nazis had every int ention of destroying before it fell into Allied hands. How does t he Greatest Treasure Hunt in History end? As is often the case, h istory is often more extraordinary than fiction. ., Preface Publishing, 2009, 3<

2009, ISBN: 1848091028

[EAN: 9781848091023], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Preface Publishing], 496 pages. From 1942 to 1951, 365 men and women from thirteen Allied nations served as the men and women of … Plus…

[EAN: 9781848091023], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Preface Publishing], 496 pages. From 1942 to 1951, 365 men and women from thirteen Allied nations served as the men and women of the Monuments, Fin e Arts & Archives section (MFAA) of the Allied armed forces, the eyes, ears and hands of the first and most ambitious effort in hi story to preserve the world's cultural heritage in times of war. They were known simply as Monuments Men. But during the thick of the fighting in Europe, from D-Day to V-E Day, when Germany surre ndered, there were only 65 Monuments Men in the forward operating area. Sixty-five men to cover thousands of square miles, save hu ndreds of damaged buildings and find millions of cultural items b efore the Nazis could destroy them forever. The Monuments Men is the story of seven of these men. Six of them were in the forward operating theatre: America's top art conservator; an up-and-comin g young museum curator; a sculptor; a modestly successful portrai t painter; a straight-arrow architect and a highly cultured, open ly gay infantry private with no prior knowledge of or appreciatio n for art, but first-hand experience as a victim of the Nazi regi me.They built their own treasure maps from scraps and hints: the diary of a Louvre curator who secretly tracked Nazi plunder throu gh the Paris rail yards; records recovered from bombed out cathed rals and museums; overheard conversations and behind-enemy-lines interviews; a tip from a dentist while getting a root canal. They started off moving in different directions, but ended up heading for the same place at the same time: the Alps near the German-Au strian-Italian border in the last two weeks of the war, where the great treasure caches of the Nazis were stored: the artwork of P aris, stolen mostly from Jewish collectors and dealers; masterwor ks from the museums of Naples and Florence; and the greatest priz e of all, Hitler's personal hoard of masterpieces, looted from th e most important art collections and museums in Europe and hidden deep within a working salt mine - a mine the Nazis had every int ention of destroying before it fell into Allied hands. How does t he Greatest Treasure Hunt in History end? As is often the case, h istory is often more extraordinary than fiction., Books<

2009, ISBN: 9781848091023

Preface Publishing. Very Good. 6.02 x 1.46 x 9.13 inches. Paperback. 2009. 496 pages. <br>From 1942 to 1951, 365 men and women from thirteen Allied nations served as the men and wo… Plus…

Preface Publishing. Very Good. 6.02 x 1.46 x 9.13 inches. Paperback. 2009. 496 pages. <br>From 1942 to 1951, 365 men and women from thirteen Allied nations served as the men and women of the Monuments, Fin e Arts & Archives section (MFAA) of the Allied armed forces, the eyes, ears and hands of the first and most ambitious effort in hi story to preserve the world's cultural heritage in times of war. They ... ., Preface Publishing, 2009, 3<

2009, ISBN: 1848091028

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