Saving Italy The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis

Name: Saving Italy The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis
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ISBN: 9780393082418

ISBN-10: 0393082415

ISBN-13: 9780393082418

Edition: 2013

Authors: Robert M. Edsel

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On the eve of the 1943 invasion of Italy, just weeks before Allied bombs nearly destroyed Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper in Milan, General Dwight Eisenhower empowered a new kind of soldier to protect mankind’s greatest cultural treasures. In May 1944, two unlikely American heroes—an artist and a scholar—embarked from Naples on the treasure hunt of a lifetime, tracking billions of dollars of stolen art, including works by Donatello, Titian, Caravaggio, and Botticelli. As the Germans blew up the historic bridges of Florence and Allied air raids threatened Michelangelo’s David, a heretofore-unknown SS general held the art hostage while negotiating a secret Nazi surrender with American spies.…

Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/6/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 480
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.046
Language: English

Robert M. Edsel was born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1956. He is the author of several non-fiction books including Rescuing Da Vinci, The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History, and Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis. The Monuments Men was adapted into a film starring George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, and Cate Blanchett. Edsel is the founder and president of the Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art, which received the 2007 National Humanities Medal under President George W. Bush.



List of maps


Author's Note


A Note on the Text


Main Characters


Prelude



Inception



Changing of the Guard



A New Type of Soldier



"Bombs and Words"



The Experiment Begins



Growing Pains



A New Order



A Troubled Bunch



Gifts



Struggle



The First Test



Close Call



Refuge



Life on the Road



Treasure Hunt



Surprises



Guardian Angels



"Little Saints, Help Us"



"The Most Beautiful Cemetery in the World"



Whereabouts Unknown



Resurrection



Christmas Wishes



Victory



Trouble in the Ranks



Switching Sides



Operation Sunrise



Complications



Surrender



The Race



The Big Move



Aftermath



Perspective



The Heroes and Their Legacy


Acknowledgments


Have You Seen These Works of Art?


Monuments Men and Women Serving in the Mediterranean Theater


Notes


Bibliography


Index