Get Free Shipping on orders over $79
The Monuments Men : Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History - Robert M Edsel

The Monuments Men

Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History

By: Robert M Edsel, Bret Witter (As told to)

Hardcover | 1 September 2009

At a Glance

Hardcover


$58.75

or 4 interest-free payments of $14.69 with

 or 

Ships in 10 to 15 business days

At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe.

The Fuehrer had begun cataloguing the art he planned to collect as well as the art he would destroy: "degenerate" works he despised.
In a race against time, behind enemy lines, often unarmed, a special force of American and British museum directors, curators, art historians, and others, called the Momuments Men, risked their lives scouring Europe to prevent the destruction of thousands of years of culture.

Focusing on the eleven-month period between D-Day and V-E Day, this fascinating account follows six Monuments Men and their impossible mission to save the world's great art from the Nazis.

More in General & World History

The Shortest History of Innovation - Andrew Leigh
On Hunting - Roger Scruton

Paperback

$56.99

A Short History of Ancient Rome - Pascal Hughes

RRP $49.99

$38.75

22%
OFF
All or Nothing : How Trump Recaptured America - Michael Wolff

RRP $24.99

$21.75

13%
OFF
The Eagle and the Hart : The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV - Helen Castor
Advance Britannia : How the Second World War Was Won, 1942-1945 - Alan Allport
The Making of the Middle Ages : An Atlas of Europe - John Haywood
Utopia for Realists : And How We Can Get There - Rutger Bregman

RRP $26.99

$22.99

15%
OFF
Letters from a Stoic : The Ancient Classic - Tom Butler-Bowdon

RRP $24.95

$21.75

13%
OFF
The Breath of the Gods : The History and Future of the Wind - Simon Winchester
Kokoda : Updated Edition - Peter FitzSimons

RRP $39.99

$31.75

21%
OFF
The Golden Road : How Ancient India Transformed the World - William Dalrymple
Rhineland : Hitler's Last Defence, 1944-45 - Anthony Tucker-Jones

RRP $49.99

$38.75

22%
OFF
Goliath's Curse : The History and Future of Societal Collapse - Luke Kemp
Entitled : The Rise and Fall of the House of York - Andrew Lownie

RRP $37.99

$28.75

24%
OFF